Paul Goren

On Voter Competence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The prevailing view in the voting behavior field maintains that citizens are too ignorant about ideology and issues to vote on policy grounds. On Voter Competence breaks sharply from this outlook by demonstrating that average citizens hold bedrock policy principles and rely heavily on them to guide their presidential votes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780195396140
• ISBN-10: 0195396146
• Artikelnr.: 35938169

Autorenporträt

Paul Goren is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely in leading journals on the topics of voting behavior, partisanship, political information, public opinion, and values.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Indictment of the American Voter
Chapter 2: Policy Cleavages in Historical Context
Chapter 3: Policy Attitudes and Political Sophistication
Chapter 4: The Three Faces of Policy Voting
Chapter 5: The Availability of Policy Principles
Chapter 6: The Centrality of Policy Principles
Chapter 7: The Origins of Policy Principles
Chapter 8: The Electoral Consequences of Policy Principles
Chapter 9: The Exoneration of the American Voter?
Appendix: Measurement of Key Variables
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