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Author | : James M. Enelow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1990-06-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521352840 |
This volume brings together eight original essays designed to provide an overview of developments in spatial voting theory in the past ten years. The topics covered are: spatial competition with possible entry by new candidates; the "heresthetical" manipulation of vote outcomes; candidates with policy preferences; experimental testing of spatial models; probabilistic voting; voting on alternatives with predictive power; elections with more than two candidates under different election systems; and agenda-setting behavior in voting. Leading scholars in these areas summarize the major results of their own and other's work, providing self-contained discussions that will apprise readers of important recent advances.
Author | : James M. Enelow |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1984-04-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521275156 |
This book provides an introduction to an important approach to the study of voting and elections: the spatial theory of voting. In contrast to the social-psychological approach to studying voting behaviour, the spatial theory of voting is premised on the idea of self-interested choice. Voters cast votes on the basis of their evaluation of the candidates or policy alternatives competing for their vote. Candidates fashion their appeals to the voters in an effort to win votes. The spatial theory provides explicit definitions for these behavioural assumptions to determines the form that self-interested behaviour will take. The consequences of this behaviour for the type of candidate or policy that voters will select is the major focus of the theory. There is a twofold purpose to this work. The first is to provide an elementary but rigourous introduction to an important body of political science research. The second is to design and test a spatial theory of elections that provides insights into the nature of election contests. The book will appeal to a wide audience, since the mathematics is kept to an accessible level.
Author | : Samuel Merrill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1999-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521665490 |
Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, 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.
Author | : Jonathan Bendor |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2011-02-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 069113507X |
Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. This title provides a behavioral theory of elections based on the notion that all actors - politicians as well as voters - are only boundedly rational.
Author | : Dan S. Felsenthal |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3642204414 |
Both theoretical and empirical aspects of single- and multi-winner voting procedures are presented in this collection of papers. Starting from a discussion of the underlying principles of democratic representation, the volume includes a description of a great variety of voting procedures. It lists and illustrates their susceptibility to the main voting paradoxes, assesses (under various models of voters' preferences) the probability of paradoxical outcomes, and discusses the relevance of the theoretical results to the choice of voting system.
Author | : David Austen-Smith |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-03-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 354027295X |
Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks' research on this subject. It examines the strategic aspects of political decision-making, including the choices of voters in committees, the positioning of candidates in electoral campaigns, and the behavior of parties in legislatures. The chapters of this book contribute to the theory of voting with incomplete information, to the literature on Downsian and probabilistic voting models of elections, to the theory of social choice in distributive environments, and to the theory of optimal dynamic decision-making. The essays employ a spectrum of research methods, from game-theoretic analysis, to empirical investigation, to experimental testing.
Author | : Melvin J. Hinich |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1996-09-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780472084135 |
A pioneering effort to integrate ideology with formal political theory
Author | : Jan E. Leighley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199604517 |
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today
Author | : Keith T. Poole |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2005-04-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781139446754 |
This book presents a simple geometric model of voting as a tool to analyze parliamentary roll call data. Each legislator is represented by one point and each roll call is represented by two points that correspond to the policy consequences of voting Yea or Nay. On every roll call each legislator votes for the closer outcome point, at least probabilistically. These points form a spatial map that summarizes the roll calls. In this sense a spatial map is much like a road map because it visually depicts the political world of a legislature. The closeness of two legislators on the map shows how similar their voting records are, and the distribution of legislators shows what the dimensions are. These maps can be used to study a wide variety of topics including how political parties evolve over time, the existence of sophisticated voting and how an executive influences legislative outcomes.
Author | : Thomas Cole Tanner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1994 |
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