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A Unified Theory of Voting Samuel Merrill, III (Wilkes University, Pennsylvania)

A Unified Theory of Voting By Samuel Merrill, III (Wilkes University, Pennsylvania)

A Unified Theory of Voting by Samuel Merrill, III (Wilkes University, Pennsylvania)


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Summary

The authors develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions in the US, Norway, and France.

A Unified Theory of Voting Summary

A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models by Samuel Merrill, III (Wilkes University, Pennsylvania)

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.

A Unified Theory of Voting Reviews

'... the most significant contribution of this book is that it successfully derives explanations for macroscopic phenomenon, such as the nature of party system and government alternations, based on the proximity, directional and mixed models of micro-level voting behaviour.' Japanese Journal of Political Science

Table of Contents

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.

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GOR010918366
9780521665490
0521665493
A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models by Samuel Merrill, III (Wilkes University, Pennsylvania)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
19990913
230
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