A Unified Theory of Voting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Unified Theory of Voting write by Samuel Merrill. This book was released on 1999-09-13. A Unified Theory of Voting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, 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 Party Competition
A Unified Theory of Party Competition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Unified Theory of Party Competition write by James F. Adams. This book was released on 2005-03-21. A Unified Theory of Party Competition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book integrates spatial and behavioral perspectives - in a word, those of the Rochester and Michigan schools - into a unified theory of voter choice and party strategy. The theory encompasses both policy and non-policy factors, effects of turnout, voter discounting of party promises, expectations of coalition governments, and party motivations based on policy as well as office. Optimal (Nash equilibrium) strategies are determined for alternative models for presidential elections in the US and France, and for parliamentary elections in Britain and Norway. These polities cover a wide range of electoral rules, number of major parties, and governmental structures. The analyses suggest that the more competitive parties generally take policy positions that come close to maximizing their electoral support, and that these vote-maximizing positions correlate strongly with the mean policy positions of their supporters.
Representation in Congress
Representation in Congress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representation in Congress write by Kim Quaile Hill. This book was released on 2015-07-02. Representation in Congress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Representation in Congress provides a theory of dyadic policy representation intended to account for when belief sharing, delegate, responsible party, trustee, and 'party elite led' models of representational linkage arise on specific policy issues. The book also presents empirical tests of most of the fundamental predictions for when such alternative models appear, and it presents tests of novel implications of the theory about other aspects of legislative behavior. Some of the latter tests resolve contradictory findings in the relevant, existing literature - such as whether and how electoral marginality affects representation, whether roll call vote extremism affects the re-election of incumbents, and what in fact is the representational behavior of switched seat legislators. All of the empirical tests provide evidence for the theory. Indeed, the full set of empirical tests provides evidence for the causal effects anticipated by the theory and much of the causal process behind those effects.
Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice
Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice write by Melvin J. Hinich. This book was released on 1996-09-16. Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pioneering effort to integrate ideology with formal political theory
A Behavioral Theory of Elections
A Behavioral Theory of Elections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Behavioral Theory of Elections write by Jonathan Bendor. This book was released on 2011-02-06. A Behavioral Theory of Elections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. This title provides a behavioral theory of elections based on the notion that all actors - politicians as well as voters - are only boundedly rational.
