Controversies in voting behavior /

"Despite all that scholars have learned about voting behavior, significant questions persist. "Controversies in voting behavior" brings together the best scholarship and organizes it around five important debates that drive research in the field. This new edition features fifteen new...

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Otros Autores: Niemi, Richard G. (ed.), Weisberg, Herbert F. (ed.), Kimball, David C., 1966- (ed.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2011.
Edición:5th ed.
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504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. 
505 0 |a Introduction: 1. The study of voting and elections -- Part I. Political participation: 2. Is political participation declining or simply changing form? -- 3. News vs. entertainment : how increasing media choice widens gaps in political knowledge and turnout / Markus Prior -- 4. Voter turnout: Eligibility has its benefits / Michael P. McDonald -- Part II. Political information: 5. How important are informational differences among voters? -- 6. The Oprah effect : how soft news helps inattentive citizens vote consistently / Matthew A. Baum and Angela S. Jamison -- 7. Advantages and disadvantages of cognitive heuristics in political decision making / Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk -- 8. Political sophistication and policy reasoning : a reconsideration (updated) / Paul Goren -- Part III. Vote determinants: 9. Are economic factors weakening as vote determinants? -- 10. The political conditioning of economic perceptions / Geoffrey Evans and Robert Andersen -- 11. Purple America / Stephen Ansolabehere, Jonathan Rodden, and James M. Snyder, Jr. -- Part IV. Partisanship and issue preferences: 12. Is the American electorate polarized? -- 13. Resurgent mass partisanship : the role of elite polarization (updated) / Marc J. Hetherington -- 14. Is polarization a myth? / Alan I. Abramowitz and Kyle L. Saunders -- 15. Polarization in the American public : misconceptions and misreadings / Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams, and Jeremy C. Pope -- 16. The 2008 election : polarization continues / Alan I. Abramowitz -- 17. Where's the polarization? / Morris P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Adams -- Part V. Party system change: 18. What are the sources of the Republican realignment in the South? -- 19. Economic development and a politics of class / Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston -- 20. The reintroduction of the Elephas maximus to the southern United States : the rise of Republican state parties, 1960-2000 (updated) / M.V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris -- 21. Racial and moral issues in the evolution of the "Southern strategy" / D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd G. Shields. 
520 |a "Despite all that scholars have learned about voting behavior, significant questions persist. "Controversies in voting behavior" brings together the best scholarship and organizes it around five important debates that drive research in the field. This new edition features fifteen new selections, with many of these containing new or updated evidence added by the authors just for this volume. Section introductions establish useful context while guiding readers through conflicting interpretations that emerge across the chapters and in the academic literature." --Amazon.com 
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650 0 |a Voting  |z United States. 
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650 7 |a Voto  |z Estados Unidos.  |2 UDESA 
700 1 |a Niemi, Richard G.,  |e ed. 
700 1 |a Weisberg, Herbert F.,  |e ed. 
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