Seth J. Hill

Frustrated Majorities (eBook, PDF)

How Issue Intensity Enables Smaller Groups of Voters to Get What They Want

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Issue intensity explains why some politicians propose policies that frustrate majorities and some voters do not participate in politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009207447
• Artikelnr.: 70912184

Autorenporträt

Seth J. Hill is Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Frustrated Majorities, Issue Intensity, and Political Action: 1. Majoritarian politics and minority interests
2. The political science of representation, elections, and intensity
Part II. Argument: An Intensity Theory of Electoral Competition: 3. Sketching a theory of intensity and electoral competition
4. Theory and model results: Issue intensity, costly action, and minority representation
5. Model extensions: Varying size of the minority, the free-rider problem, and social welfare
Part III. Evidence: Empirical Patterns and Intensity Theory: 6. Introduction to empirical evidence
7. Politicians side with intense minorities
8. Issues of intensity explain vote choice
9. Opening avenues of costly action: Institutional change to costs of campaign contributions
10. Closing avenues of costly action: Reform to primary elections
Part IV. Conclusions: 11. Conclusion: Implications for representative democracy and the study of politics
Part V. Appendix A. Mathematical model of intensity and electoral competition
B. Formalities of Chapter 5
C. Supplementary information for Chapter 8
D. Supplementary information for Chapter 9
E. Supplementary information for Chapter 10
Bibliography
Index.