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A UNIFIED THEORY OF VOTING
DIRECTIONAL AND PROXIMITY SPATIAL MODELS |
| By: |
Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521662222 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521662222 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 September, 1999 |
| Pages: |
230 |
| Description: |
The authors develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions in the US, Norway, and France. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
33 b/w illus. 40 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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