Walter J. Stone

Candidates and Voters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Candidates and Voters extends our understanding of vote choice and representation, showing empirically that elections work better than is normally assumed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9781316649602
• ISBN-10: 1316649601
• Artikelnr.: 48889258

Autorenporträt

Walter J. Stone is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He has received multiple research grants in support of his work from the National Science Foundation and from the Carnegie Corporation. Prior to joining the University of California, Davis faculty, he was Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and visiting Professor at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Candidates, voting choice and election outcomes
3. Design and data: district informants and the study of congressional elections
4. Polarization in congressional elections since 1952
5. Ideological proximity, valence, and voter choice
6. Correct voting on proximity and valence
7. Anticipated reactions and challenger entry
8. The proximity and valence rules in district voting
9. District ideological representation
10. Getting it right? Valence and ideology in district representation
Conclusion.