Format:
XV, 277 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] MyiLibrary [ca. 2008] Online-Ressource MyiLibrary
ISBN:
9786610540839
Content:
This book shows how voter turnout is an indicator of the health of a democracy.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- The Authors -- Introduction -- 1 Confronting the Puzzles of Voter Turnout -- Why So Much Turnout Change - or Why So Little? -- Change Compared to What? Other Countries or Other Times? -- Something About Societies or Something About People? -- How Do We Know When an Association Is Causal? -- Two Faces of Socialization -- The Role of Mobilization -- Individual-Level Change or Change in the Structure of Society? -- Something About People's Characteristics or Something About Their Motivations? -- The Relevant Contest: Local or National? -- Solving the Voter Turnout Puzzles -- A Note on Statistical Tests -- 2 A New Approach to the Calculus of Voting -- The Riker and Ordeshook Model -- What We Have Learned that was not Known to Riker and Ordeshook -- Voters in Context: Obtaining Information, Eliminating Uncertainty -- Schelling's "Sufficiency" Model: Rational Voting in the Context of a Coalition -- A Contextualized Model of the Decision to Vote -- Subjective Probabilities and the Strategic Calculus of Multiperson Games -- Discussion -- 3 The Role of Generational Replacement in Turnout Change -- The Socializing Effect of Younger Enfranchisement -- Hypotheses -- Data and Methods -- The Generational Basis of Turnout Variations -- Multivariate Analysis -- Assessing the Findings -- Types of Cumulative Effects -- Measuring the Size of the Electorate at Each Election -- Measuring the Proportion of the Electorate that Is New at Each Election -- 4 Rational Responses to Electoral Competition -- A Tale of Two Outliers -- Understanding Low Turnout in the United States -- Turnout and Insulation from Election Outcomes -- An Inventory of Variables Affecting Electoral Competition -- Which Independent Variables Have Cumulative Effects?.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521833647
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521541476
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Franklin, Mark N., 1964 - Voter turnout and the dynamics of electoral competition in established democracies since 1945 Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004 ISBN 9780521541473
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521833646
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521541476
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521833647
Additional Edition:
Print version Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies since 1945
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Parlamentswahl
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Geschichte 1945-2000
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