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Author: Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780472081332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cross-national study of the effect of economic conditions on voting behavior in the United States and the Western democracies
Author: Raymond M. Duch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-03-17
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1139470620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes a selection model for explaining cross-national variation in economic voting: Rational voters condition the economic vote on whether incumbents are responsible for economic outcomes, because this is the optimal way to identify and elect competent economic managers under conditions of uncertainty. This model explores how political and economic institutions alter the quality of the signal that the previous economy provides about the competence of candidates. The rational economic voter is also attentive to strategic cues regarding the responsibility of parties for economic outcomes and their electoral competitiveness. Theoretical propositions are derived, linking variation in economic and political institutions to variability in economic voting. The authors demonstrate that there is economic voting, and that it varies significantly across political contexts. The data consist of 165 election studies conducted in 19 different countries over a 20-year time period.
Author: Wouter van der Brug
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 1139464221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic conditions are said to affect election outcomes, but past research has produced unstable and contradictory findings. This book argues that these problems are caused by the failure to take account of electoral competition between parties. A research strategy to correct this problem is designed and applied to investigate effects of economic conditions on (individual) voter choices and (aggregate) election outcomes over 42 elections in 15 countries. It shows that economic conditions exert small effects on individual party preferences, which can have large consequences for election outcomes. In countries where responsibility for economic policy is clear, voters vote retrospectively and reward or punish incumbent parties - although in coalition systems smaller government parties often gain at the expense of the largest party when economic conditions deteriorate. Where clarity of responsibility for economic policy is less clear, voters vote more prospectively on the basis of expected party policies.
Author: Nic Cheeseman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 110841723X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radical new approach to understanding Africa's elections: explaining why politicians, bureaucrats and voters so frequently break electoral rules.
Author: Lynn Vavreck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-07-26
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780691139630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrating how candidates and their campaigns affect the economic vote, this book provides a different way of understanding past elections - and predicting future ones. It offers a theory of campaigns that explains why electoral victory requires more than simply being the candidate favored by prevailing economic conditions.
Author: Brian Min
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-17
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1107109841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows that the provision of seemingly universal public goods is shaped by electoral priorities.
Author: Donald P. Green
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 081573266X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first edition of Get Out the Vote! broke ground by introducing a new scientific approach to the challenge of voter mobilization and profoundly influenced how campaigns operate. In this expanded and updated edition, the authors incorporate data from more than one hundred new studies, which shed new light on the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of various campaign tactics, including door-to-door canvassing, e-mail, direct mail, and telephone calls. Two new chapters focus on the effectiveness of mass media campaigns and events such as candidate forums and Election Day festivals. Available in time for the core of the 2008 presidential campaign, this practical guide on voter mobilization is sure to be an important resource for consultants, candidates, and grassroots organizations. Praise for the first edition: "Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber have studied turnout for years. Their findings, based on dozens of controlled experiments done as part of actual campaigns, are summarized in a slim and readable new book called Get Out the Vote!, which is bound to become a bible for politicians and activists of all stripes." —Alan B. Kreuger, in the New York Times "Get Out the Vote! shatters conventional wisdom about GOTV." —Hal Malchow in Campaigns & Elections "Green and Gerber's recent book represents important innovations in the study of turnout."—Political Science Review "Green and Gerber have provided a valuable resource for grassroots campaigns across the spectrum."—National Journal
Author: Jan E. Leighley
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Published: 2012-02-16
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 0199604517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today
Author: André Blais
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 331940573X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "experimental" methodologies used to study voting. Experimental methods include laboratory experiments in the tradition of political psychology, laboratory experiments with monetary incentives, in the economic tradition, survey experiments (varying survey, question wording, framing or content), as well as various kinds of field experimentation. Topics include the behavior of voters (in particular turnout, vote choice, and strategic voting), the behavior of parties and candidates, and the comparison of electoral rules.
Author: Gary W. Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-03-28
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780521585279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.
