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Electoral democracy / edited by Michael B. MacKuen and George Rabinowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elections--United States.
- Elections.
- United States.
- Voting--United States.
- Voting.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Electoral Democracy pushes the boundaries of our current understanding of democratic politics and government. Some of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline were asked to write about topics of continuing interest to their ongoing research programs. The fruit of their efforts incorporates the best of contemporary work on public opinion and democracy. Taking different perspectives, the authors assess the nature of citizens' political beliefs and values and then consider the ways that those views connect with elite policy-making. The combined essays provide the reader a good view of current research, suggest novel theoretical advances, and in the end invite a renewed interest in the quality and durability of electoral democracy.
- Contents:
- 1 Belief Systems after Converse / Donald R. Kinder 13
- 2 Democracy with Attitudes / Larry M. Bartels 48
- 3 The Political Psychology of Party Identification / Herbert F. Weisberg, Steven H. Greene 83
- 4 Process Matters: Cognitive Models of Candidate Evaluation / Marco R. Steenbergen, Milton Lodge 125
- 5 Policy Issues and Electoral Democracy / Stuart Elaine Macdonald, George Rabinowitz, Holly Brasher 172
- 6 Elections and the Dynamics of Ideological Representation / Michael B. MacKuen, Robert S. Erikson, James A. Stimson, Kathleen Knight 200
- 7 The Heavenly Public: What Would a Fully Informed Citizenry Be Like? / Robert C. Luskin 238
- 8 The Nature of Belief in a Mass Public / Michael W. Traugott 262
- 9 Electoral Democracy during Politics as Usual
- and Unusual / John Aldrich 279
- 10 Coming to Grips with V. O. Key's Concept of Latent Opinion / John Zaller 311.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0472098209
- 0472068202
- OCLC:
- 51003971
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