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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Lists of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors’ introduction – in defense of political science
Part I Theoretical approaches to the study of voter behavior
1 Democratic theory and electoral behavior
2 The sociological and social-psychological approaches
3 Rational choice theory and voting
4 Institutions and voting behavior
Part II Turnout: why people vote (or don’t)
5 The big picture: turnout at the macro-level
6 Demographics and the social bases of voter turnout
7 Turnout and the calculus of voting: recent advances and prospects for integration with theories of campaigns and elections
8 Voting and the expanding repertoire of participation
9 The acquisition of voting habits
PART III Determinants of vote choice
10 Long-term factors: class and religious cleavages
11 Ideology and electoral choice
12 Party identification
13 Trends in partisanship
14 Politics, media and the electoral role of party leaders
15 Preferences, constraints, and choices: tactical voting in mass elections
16 Economic voting
Part IV The role of context and campaigns
17 Electoral systems
18 Electoral integrity
19 Voting behavior in multi-level electoral systems
20 Local context, social networks and neighborhood effects on voter choice
21 Voting behavior in referendums
22 Networks, contexts, and the process of political influence
23 Persuasion and mobilization efforts by parties and candidates
24 Campaign strategies, media, and voters: the fourth era of political communication
25 The role of mass media in shaping public opinion and voter behavior
26 Digital campaigning
Part V The nature of public opinion
27 Attitudes, values and belief systems
28 The stability of political attitudes
29 Political knowledge: measurement, misinformation and turnout
30 Is there a rational public?
31 The geometry of party competition: parties and voters in the issue space
32 The thermostatic model: the public, policy and politics
33 Regime support
34 Generational replacement: engine of electoral change
Part VI Methodological challenges and new developments
35 Selecting the dependent variable in electoral studies: choice or preference?
36 The quest for representative survey samples
37 Horses for courses: using internet surveys for researching public opinion and voting behavior
38 The use of aggregate data in the study of voting behavior: ecological inference, ecological fallacy and other applications
39 Election forecasting
40 Field experiments in political behavior
41 Making inferences about elections and Public oPinion using incidentally collected data
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