The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
Title | The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Dieter Klingemann |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2009-02-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191567329 |
Citizens living in presidential or parliamentary systems face different political choices as do voters casting votes in elections governed by rules of proportional representation or plurality. Political commentators seem to know how such rules influence political behaviour. They firmly believe, for example, that candidates running in plurality systems are better known and held more accountable to their constituencies than candidates competing in elections governed by proportional representation. However, such assertions rest on shaky ground simply because solid empirical knowledge to evaluate the impact of political institutions on individual political behaviour is still lacking. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems has collected data on political institutions and on individual political behaviour and scrutinized it carefully. In line with common wisdom results of most analyses presented in this volume confirm that political institutions matter for individual political behaviour but, contrary to what is widely believed, they do not matter much.
ELECTION STUDIES
Title | ELECTION STUDIES PDF eBook |
Author | Elihu Katz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-06-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367098353 |
Election Studies
Title | Election Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Elihu Katz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2018-03-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429980493 |
Academic studies of elections are not in the business of predicting outcomes. They are in the business of explaining them. The best studies treat voting data as raw material with which to explore socio-psychological processes such as individual decision-making and such sources of influence as issues, personality, media, socio-economic background, and party loyalty. The ebb and flow of ideologies and the comparative workings of different political systems are core topics on which election studies shed light. Looking back on more than fifty years of voting research, some of its major practitioners and critics reflect here on what has--and has not--been accomplished.
Improving Public Opinion Surveys
Title | Improving Public Opinion Surveys PDF eBook |
Author | John H. Aldrich |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1400840295 |
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. Conducted during the presidential election years and midterm Congressional elections, the survey is based on interviews with voters and delves into why they make certain choices. In this edited volume, John Aldrich and Kathleen McGraw bring together a group of leading social scientists that developed and tested new measures that might be added to the ANES, with the ultimate goal of extending scholarly understanding of the causes and consequences of electoral outcomes. The contributors--leading experts from several disciplines in the fields of polling, public opinion, survey methodology, and elections and voting behavior--illuminate some of the most important questions and results from the ANES 2006 pilot study. They look at such varied topics as self-monitoring in the expression of political attitudes, personal values and political orientations, alternate measures of political trust, perceptions of similarity and disagreement in partisan groups, measuring ambivalence about government, gender preferences in politics, and the political issues of abortion, crime, and taxes. Testing new ideas in the study of politics and the political psychology of voting choices and turnout, this collection is an invaluable resource for all students and scholars working to understand the American electorate.
PAIS Bulletin
Title | PAIS Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Policy sciences |
ISBN |
The Measure of American Elections
Title | The Measure of American Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Barry C. Burden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2014-08-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107066670 |
This book brings leading scholars together to examine the performance of elections across the United States, using a data-driven perspective.
The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior
Title | The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Jan E. Leighley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 796 |
Release | 2012-02-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199604517 |
The 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