How voters decide : a model of vote choice based on a special longitudinal study extending over fifteen years and the British election surveys of 1970-1983

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How voters decide : a model of vote choice based on a special longitudinal study extending over fifteen years and the British election surveys of 1970-1983

Hilde T. Himmelweit, Patrick Humphreys, Marianne Jaeger

Open University Press, 1985

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How voters decide : a longitudinal study of political attitudes and voting extending over fifteen years

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Note

Rev. ed. of: How voters decide / Hilde T. Himmelweit ... [et al.]. 1981

Bibliography: p. [265]-270

Includes indexes

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Table of Contents

  • The cognitive model of vote choice
  • the data base
  • the new norm -variability not loyalty
  • the process of political socialization
  • relevance of political attitudes to vote choice
  • the relative role in vote choice of social and cognitive determinants
  • the life history of issues - attitude and vote change
  • perceptions and evaluations of parties' stands
  • the process of deciding how to vote
  • structure of political attitudes - randomness or ideology
  • the middle ground - the liberal and alliance voters
  • implications for social psychologists
  • implications for political scientists
  • political implications
  • measures used in the longitudinal sample
  • characteristics of the longitudinal sample
  • tables and figures relating to chapters. Process.

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