A unified theory of voting : directional and proximity spatial models / Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merrill, Samuel, 1939- author.

Grofman, Bernard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voting.

Social choice.

Voting--United States.

Voting--Norway.

Voting--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme views due to the fact that the voters discount the candidates' abilities to implement policy. The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the US, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Alternative Models of Issue Voting; CHAPTER 3 A Unified Model of Issue Voting: Proximity, Direction, and Intensity; CHAPTER 4 Comparing the Empirical Fit of the Directional and Proximity Models for Voter Utility Functions; CHAPTER 5 Empirical Model Fitting Using the Unified Model: Voter Utility; CHAPTER 6 Empirical Fitting of Probabilistic Models of Voter Choice in Two-Party Electorates; CHAPTER 7 Empirical Fitting of Probabilistic Models of Voter Choice in Multiparty Electorates

CHAPTER 8 Equilibrium Strategies for Two-Candidate Directional Spatial Models; CHAPTER 9 Long-Term Dynamics of Voter Choice and Party Strategy; CHAPTER 10 Strategy and Equilibria in Multicandidate Elections; CHAPTER 11 Strategy under Alternative Multicandidate Voting Procedures; POSTSCRIPT Taking Stock of What's Been Done and What Still Needs to Be Done; Appendices; Glossary of Symbols; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11842-5

0-511-30208-8

1-280-42091-X

0-511-15179-9

0-521-66222-2

0-511-04893-9

0-511-60586-2

0-511-17289-3

OCLC:

70720414