Ideology and spatial voting in American elections /
The central feature of democracy is that the will of the people determines the policies enacted by the government. In representative democracies such as the United States, citizens influence the government primarily through voting in elections. The success of democratic governance, therefore, rests...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ideology
- 3. Measuring ideology
- 4. Linking theory and empirics: testing spatial voting theory
- 5. Partisanship vs. proximity
- 6. Political information and vote choice
- 7. The political perceptions of citizens
- 8. Conclusion.