Preface | p. vii |
Introduction | |
The Study of Voting and Elections | p. 1 |
Political Participation | |
Why Is Voter Turnout Low (And Why Is It Declining)? | p. 22 |
Tuning in, Tuning out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America | p. 38 |
Solving the Puzzle of Participation in Electoral Politics | p. 69 |
Electoral Participation | p. 83 |
Political Information | |
Does Lack of Political Information Matter? | p. 100 |
Information Effects in Collective Preferences | p. 114 |
Voting Correctly | p. 139 |
Rational Public Opinion | p. 164 |
Vote Determinants | |
What Determines the Vote? | p. 180 |
National Economic Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections | p. 200 |
Multiple-Stage Explanation of Political Preferences | p. 221 |
The Responsive Voter: Campaign Information and the Dynamics of Candidate Evaluation | p. 240 |
Divided Government | |
Do Voters Prefer Divided Government? | p. 271 |
Balancing Explanations of Divided Government | p. 291 |
A New Approach to the Study of Ticket Splitting | p. 301 |
Party Identification | |
How Much Does Politics Affect Party Identification? | p. 322 |
Generational Changes and Party Identification | p. 338 |
Partisan Stability: Evidence from Aggregate Data | p. 356 |
Macropartisanship: The Permanent Memory of Partisan Evaluation | p. 364 |
Party System Change | |
Is the Party System Changing? | p. 371 |
Party Coalitions in Transition: Partisanship and Group Support, 1952-1996 | p. 387 |
The Sixth American Party System: Electoral Change, 1952-1992 | p. 405 |
References | p. 427 |
Name Index | p. 477 |
Subject Index | p. 487 |
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Controversies in Voting Behavior
by Niemi, Richard G.; Weisberg, Herbert F.-
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