A unified theory of voting : directional and proximity spatial models
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A unified theory of voting : directional and proximity spatial models
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206) and index
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Description
This book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme views due to the fact that the voters discount the candidates' abilities to implement policy. The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the US, 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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Models of Voter Behavior: 2. Alternative models of issue voting
- 3. A unified model of issue voting: proximity, direction, and intensity
- 4. Comparing the empirical fit of the directional and proximity models for voter utility functions
- 5. Empirical model fitting using the unified model: voter utility
- 6. Empirical fitting of probabilistic models of voter choice in two-party electorates
- 7. Empirical fitting of probabilistic models of voter choice in multiparty electorates
- Part II. Models of Party or Candidate Behavior and Strategy: 8. Equilibrium strategies for two-candidate directional spatial models
- 9. Long-term dynamics of voter choice and party strategy
- 10. Strategy and equilibrium in multicandidate elections
- 11. Strategy under alternative multicandidate voting procedures.
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