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Controversies in American voting behavior
- Title
- Controversies in American voting behavior / edited by Richard G. Niemi and Herbert F. Weisberg.
- Publication
- San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, ©1976.
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- Description
- xii, 543 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction : The study of voting and elections -- Voters andelections -- Part I. Democratic participation -- Is it rational to vote? -- The causes and effects of rational abstention / Anthony Downs -- The rationality of political activity : A reconsideration / Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie -- Part II. The ideological level of the electorate -- Do voters think ideologically? -- The stability of belief elements over time / Philip E. Converse -- Mass belief systems revisited : Political change and attitude structure / Norman H. Nie with Kristi Andersen -- Belief systems : Constraint, complexity, and the 1972 election / James A. Stimson -- Part III. Determinants of the vote -- Parties, candidates, or issues? -- A majority party in disarray : policy polarization in the 1972 election / Arthur H. Miller [and others] -- Variability in electoral behavior : longitudinal perspectives from causal modeling / Mark A. Schulman and Gerald M. Pomper -- The "responsible electorate" of 1968 / Philip E. Converse [and others] -- The assessment of policy voting / Richard A. Brody and Benjamin I. Page -- Part IV. Congressional elections -- Is congressional voting basically partisan? -- Determinants of the outcomes of midterm congressional elections / Edward R. Tufte -- Information and the vote : a comparative election study / Barbara Hinckley, C. Richard Hofstetter, John H. Kessel.
- Electoral change -- Part I. Individual partisanship -- Is party identification stable? -- Generational change and the decline of party identification / Paul R. Abramson -- Attachments to the political parties / M. Kent Jennings and Richard G. Niemi -- Part II. Partisan realignment -- Is the party balance shifting? -- Perceptions of Presidential candidates : implications forElectoral change / Jerrold G. Rusk and Herbert F. Weisberg -- A new tide observed : the social issue / Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg -- A socialization theory of partisan realignment / Paul Allen Beck -- Part III. Party dealignment -- Are parties becoming irrelevant? -- The onward march of party decomposition / Walter Dean Burnham -- The erosion of party fidelity / Philip E. Converse -- Part IV. Historical and institutional perspectives -- Has voting changed historically? -- The changing shape of the American political universe / Walter Dean Burnham -- The effect of the Australian ballot reform on split ticket voting : 1876-1908 / Jerrold G. Rusk -- Parties and the nationalization of electoral forces / Donald E. Stokes.
- ISBN
- 0716705362
- 0716705354 pbk.
- 9780716705352 pbk
- 9780716705369
- LCCN
- 76013564
- OCLC
- ocm02189104
- 2189104
- SCSB-109677
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library