James M. Enelow, Melvin J. Hinich

The Spatial Theory of Voting

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an introduction to an important approach to the study of voting and elections: the spatial theory of voting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521275156
• ISBN-10: 0521275156
• Artikelnr.: 26571808

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Spatial voting models: the behavioural assumptions
2. The unidimensional spatial voting model
3. A two-dimensional spatial model
4. A general spatial model of candidate competition
5. The influence of candidate characteristics and abstention on election outcomes
6. Voting on budgets
7. Models of voter uncertainty
8. Institutions
9. Empirical testing of the spatial theory of elections
10. Concluding observations
References
Answers to selected problems
Index.