Samuel Iii Merrill, Bernard N. Grofman, Iii Merrill

A Unified Theory of Voting

Directional and Proximity Spatial Models

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book addresses the questions: How do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? How do candidates choose policy positions in response to the behavior of voters? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most nearly shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme or intense views but in the same direction as the voter, perhaps because voters discount candidates' abilities to implement the policies they advocate? The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other voter motivations and, using conditional logit and other statistical methods, assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the United States, Norway, and France."--BOOK JACKET.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780521662222
• ISBN-10: 0521662222
• Artikelnr.: 35454049

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. Models of Voter Behavior: 2. Alternative models of
issue voting; 3. A unified model of issue voting: proximity, direction, and
intensity; 4. Comparing the empirical fit of the directional and proximity
models for voter utility functions; 5. Empirical model fitting using the
unified model: voter utility; 6. Empirical fitting of probabilistic models
of voter choice in two-party electorates; 7. Empirical fitting of
probabilistic models of voter choice in multiparty electorates; Part II.
Models of Party or Candidate Behavior and Strategy: 8. Equilibrium
strategies for two-candidate directional spatial models; 9. Long-term
dynamics of voter choice and party strategy; 10. Strategy and equilibrium
in multicandidate elections; 11. Strategy under alternative multicandidate
voting procedures.