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The study of voting behaviour remains a vibrant sub-discipline of political science. The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an authoritative and wide ranging survey of this dynamic field, drawing together a team of the world's leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art review that sets the agenda for future study. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on a range of countries, the handbook is composed of eight parts. The first five cover the principal theoretical paradigms, establishing the state of the art in their conceptualisation and application, and followed by chapters on their specific challenges and innovative applications in contemporary voting studies. The remaining three parts explore elements of the voting process to understand their different effects on vote outcomes. The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an essential benchmark publication for advanced students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of politics, sociology, psychology and research methods.
Candidate Location and Vote Choice
Candidate Location and Vote Choice
Introduction
When mentioned in conjunction with voting, the word ‘distance’ is usually associated with ideological proximity, describing the extent to which voters are close to or distant from a candidate or political party in terms of their attitudes or policy positions. However, in a less prominent way, geographical distance also plays a role in voter choice through its effect as one of a number of candidate attributes which voters may include in their vote calculus.
Candidate attributes have been a consistent feature of vote explanations since the early days of psephology and political behaviour (Key, 1949; Wallas, 1908). However, in the post-war behavioural revolution and the shift in focus to the ...
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