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Duty and choice : the evolution of the study of voting and voters / edited by Peter John Loewen and Daniel Rubenson.

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"Devoted to exploring elections as the central act in a democracy, Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters is animated by a set of three overarching questions: why do some citizens vote while others do not? how do voters decide to cast their ballots for one candidate an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Other Authors: Loewen, Peter John, 1979- (Editor), Rubenson, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Voting.
Elections.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Duty and choice : the evolution of the study of voting and voters / Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and Maxime Héroux-Legault
  • Part I: Voter turnout: 2. Altruism, participation, and political context / Cindy D. Kam, Skyler J. Cranmer, and James H. Fowler
  • 3. Behavioural anomalies explain variation in voter turnout / Christopher Dawes, Peter John Loewen, and Gabriel Arsenault
  • 4. Civic duty and social pressure as causes of voter turnout / Donald P. Green
  • 5. The preferences of voters and non-voters in Canada (1988-2008) / Jean-François Godbout and Mathieu Turgeon
  • Part II: Vote choice. 6. The economy and federal election outcomes in Canada : taking provincial economic conditions into account / Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, and Bruno Jérôme
  • 7. Who responds to election campaigns? The two-moderator model revisited / Patrick Fournier, Fred Cutler, and Stuart Soroka
  • 8. Bureaucrats, policy attitudes, and political behaviour : a reappraisal / James C. Garand, Ping Xu
  • Part III: Electoral systems. 9. How electoral systems shape what voters think about democracy / Christopher J. Anderson
  • 10. Party strategies, institutions, and electoral system effects / Romain Lachat
  • 11. When do voters act strategically? Institutional and individual variation in the incidence of strategic voting in democracies / John Aldrich and Laura B. Stephenson
  • 12. The future of election studies and the study of elections / Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and André Blais.

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