Iii Samuel Merrill

Unified Theory of Voting (eBook, PDF)

Directional and Proximity Spatial Models

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme views due to the fact that the voters discount the candidates' abilities to implement policy. The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the US, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511033698
• Artikelnr.: 38213009

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. Models of Voter Behavior: 2. Alternative models of
issue voting; 3. A unified model of issue voting: proximity, direction, and
intensity; 4. Comparing the empirical fit of the directional and proximity
models for voter utility functions; 5. Empirical model fitting using the
unified model: voter utility; 6. Empirical fitting of probabilistic models
of voter choice in two-party electorates; 7. Empirical fitting of
probabilistic models of voter choice in multiparty electorates; Part II.
Models of Party or Candidate Behavior and Strategy: 8. Equilibrium
strategies for two-candidate directional spatial models; 9. Long-term
dynamics of voter choice and party strategy; 10. Strategy and equilibrium
in multicandidate elections; 11. Strategy under alternative multicandidate
voting procedures.