Summary
Overview
Key Readings
This four-volume collection provides a rich overview of one of the core areas of political science research: voting. The quantitative study of voting behavior (psephology) in particular has developed as a highly specialized field since the 1980s and has spawned a vast literature from a wide array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. This set maps out the development of psephology in the post-war period to its current state, and covers the following broad themes:
• Historical evolution of voting studies; • Sociological models; • Cognition and the voter calculus; • Electoral systems; • The electoral context; • Debates and methodology
Editors' Introduction: The Evolving Study of Electoral Behavior
Introduction
The history of the scientific study of voting behavior (‘psephology’) goes back almost a hundred years, but as an important and often vibrant subfield of political science, it only took off during the discipline's post-Second World War behavioral revolution. Today, the field is well established and is considered part of the ‘core business’ of political science, enjoying links with other areas as diverse as party systems, European studies, and political theory. Moreover, the study of voting behavior is very much an interdisciplinary exercise. Three of the most influential approaches to the study of voting behavior that to date have informed the way political scientists think about voting behavior – Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet (1944), Campbell ...
Table of Contents
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Volume 1: Social-Political Models
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1. Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction
Seymour Lipset | Stein Rokkan
1967
Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives
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2. A Suggested Index of the Association of Social Class and Voting
Robert Alford
1962
Public Opinion Quarterly
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Arend Lijphart
1979
American Political Science Review
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4. Intergenerational Class Mobility in Three Western European Societies: England, France and Sweden
Robert Erikson | John Goldthorpe | Lucienne Portocarero
1979
British Journal of Sociology
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5. Class Mobility and Political Preferences: Individual and Contextual Effects
Nan Graaf | Paul Nieuwbeerta | Anthony Heath
1995
American Journal of Sociology
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6. The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap: Women's and Men's Voting Behavior in Global Perspective
Ronald Inglehart | Pippa Norris
2000
International Political Science Review
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7. Political Cleavage: A Conceptual and Theoretical Analysis
Alan Zuckerman
1975
British Journal of Political Science
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8. A Theory of Critical Elections
V.O. Key
1955
The Journal of Politics
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9. Political Party Identification and Attitudes toward Foreign Policy
George Belknap | Angus Campbell
1951
Public Opinion Quarterly
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10. The Concept of a Normal Vote
Philip Converse
1966
Elections and the Political Order
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11. The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
Philip Converse
1964
Ideology and Discontent
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12. The Systematic Beliefs of the Mass Public: Estimating Policy Preferences with Survey Data
John Jackson
1983
The Journal of Politics
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13. Stability and Change in 1960: A Reinstating Election
Philip Converse | Angus Campbell | Warren Miller | Donald Stokes
1961
American Political Science Review
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14. A Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Model of Electoral Choice
Gregory Markus | Philip Converse
1979
American Political Science Review
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15. An Outline for a Model of Party Choice
Morris Fiorina
1977
American Journal of Political Science
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16. Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952–1996
Larry Bartels
2000
American Journal of Political Science
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Volume 2: Cognition and the Voter Calculus
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Harold Hotelling
1929
The Economic Journal
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18. A Theory of the Calculus of Voting
William Riker | Peter Ordeshook
1968
American Political Science Review
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19. The Paradox of Not Voting: A Decision Theoretic Analysis
John Ferejohn | Morris Fiorina
1974
American Political Science Review
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20. Costs of Voting and Nonvoting
Richard Niemi
1976
Public Choice
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21. Is Turnout the Paradox that Ate Rational Choice Theory?
Bernard Grofman
1993
Information, Participation, and Choice: An Economic Theory of Democracy in Perspective
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22. Spatial Models of Party Competition
Donald Stokes
1963
American Political Science Review
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23. The Neglected Role of the Status Quo in Models of Issue Voting
Bernard Grofman
1985
The Journal of Politics
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Anthony Heath | Geoffrey Evans | Jean Martin
1994
British Journal of Political Science
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25. A Directional Theory of Issue Voting
George Rabinowitz | Stuart MacDonald
1989
American Political Science Review
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Torben Iversen
1994
American Journal of Political Science
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27. The Impact of a Presidential Debate on Voter Rationality
Alan Abramowitz
1978
American Journal of Political Science
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28. Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
John Petrocik
1996
American Journal of Political Science
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Ian Budge
1994
British Journal of Political Science
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30. Self-Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting
David Sears | Richard Lau | Tom Tyler | Harris Allen
1980
American Political Science Review
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31. Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice
George Quattrone | Amos Tversky
1988
American Political Science Review
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George Marcus | Michael MacKuen
1993
American Political Science Review
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Volume 3: Forecasting and Electoral Context
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Karlheinz Reif | Hermann Schmitt
1980
European Journal of Political Research
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34. Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies during the 1980s
Robert Jackman | Ross Miller
1995
Comparative Political Studies
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35. Individual and Systemic Influences on Turnout: Who Votes? 1984
Jan Leighley | Jonathan Nagler
1992
The Journal of Politics
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36. What Voters Teach Us About Europe-Wide Elections: What Europe-Wide Elections Teach Us About Voters
Cees Eijk | Mark Franklin | Michael Marsh
1996
Electoral Studies
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37. Presidential Popularity from Truman to Johnson
John Mueller
1970
American Political Science Review
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38. Short-Term Fluctuations in U.S. Voting Behavior, 1896–1964
Gerald Kramer
1971
American Political Science Review
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39. The VP-Function: A Survey of the Literature on Vote and Popularity Functions after 25 Years
Peter Nannestad | Martin Paldam
1994
Public Choice
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40. Who's the Chef? Economic Voting under a Dual Executive
Michael Lewis-Beck
1997
European Journal of Political Research
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41. Emotional Reactions to the Economy: I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore
Pamela Conover | Stanley Feldman
1986
American Journal of Political Science
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42. A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting: Taking Account of the Political Context
G. Powell | Guy Whitten
1993
American Journal of Political Science
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David Sanders
2000
Electoral Studies
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44. The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions
Geoffrey Evans | Robert Andersen
2006
The Journal of Politics
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45. Why are American Presidential Election Campaign Polls so Variable when Votes are so Predictable?
Andrew Gelman | Gary King
1993
British Journal of Political Science
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46. Altering the Foundations of Support for the President through Priming
Jon Krosnick | Donald Kinder
1990
American Political Science Review
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47. Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate?
Stephen Ansolabehere | Shanto Iyengar | Adam Simon | Nicholas Valentino
1994
American Political Science Review
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48. Messages Received: The Political Impact of Media Exposure
Larry Bartels
1993
American Political Science Review
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49. Political Context and Attitude Change
Michael MacKuen | Courtney Brown
1987
American Political Science Review
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Volume 4: Debates and Methodology
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50. The Veil of Insignificance
Hartmut Kliemt
1986
European Journal of Political Economy
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51. Attitudes and Voting Behaviour: An Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Martin Fishbein | Icek Ajzen
1981
Progress in Applied Social Psychology
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52. Secular Realignment and the Party System
V. Key
1959
The Journal of Politics
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53. The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational Change in Post-Industrial Societies
Ronald Inglehart
1971
American Political Science Review
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54. Cognitive Mobilization and Partisan Dealignment in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Russell Dalton
1984
The Journal of Politics
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55. Plus ça Change …: The New CPS Election Study Panel
Philip Converse | Gregory Markus
1979
American Political Science Review
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56. Issue Evolution, Population Replacement, and Normal Partisan Change
Edward Carmines | James Stimson
1981
American Political Science Review
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57. The Dynamics of Aggregate Partisanship
Janet Box-Steffensmeier | Renée Smith
1996
American Political Science Review
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58. Ideological Realignment in the U.S. Electorate
Alan Abramowitz | Kyle Saunders
1998
The Journal of Politics
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59. Recall Accuracy and its Determinants
C. Eijk | B. Niemöller
1979
Acta Politica
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60. Design Issues in Electoral Research: Taking Care of (Core) Business
Cees Eijk
2002
Electoral Studies
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Charles Pattie | Ron Johnston
1995
European Journal of Political Research
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62. The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment
Alan Gerber | Donald Green
2000
American Political Science Review
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63. Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals
W. Robinson
1950
American Sociological Review
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64. The Economic Crisis of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote
Jürgen Falter | Reinhard Zintl
1988
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
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65. Response Latency versus Certainty as Indexes of the Strength of Voting Intentions in a CATI Survey
John Bassili
1993
Public Opinion Quarterly
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66. A New Approach for Modelling Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections
R. Alvarez | Jonathan Nagler
2000
British Journal of Political Science
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