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The American voter revisited / Michael S. Lewis-Beck ... [and others] ; with a foreword by Philip E. Converse.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elections--United States.
- Elections.
- United States.
- Voting--United States.
- Voting.
- Party affiliation--United States.
- Party affiliation.
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- Political parties--United States.
- Political parties.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 493 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history. Yet despite the recent election upheaval, The American Voter Revisited discovers that voter behavior has been remarkably consistent over the last half century. And if the authors are correct in their predictions, 2008 will show just how reliably the American voter weighs in, election after election.
- The American Voter Revisited re-creates the outstanding 1960 classic The American Voter-which was based on the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956-following the same format, theory, and mode of analysis as the original. In this new volume, the authors test the ideas and methods of the original against presidential election surveys from 2000 and 2004. Surprisingly, the contemporary American voter is found to behave politically much like voters of the 1950s.
- Contents:
- Perceptions of the parties and candidates
- Partisan choice
- Voting turnout
- The impact of party identification
- The development of party identification
- Public policy and political preference
- Attitude structure and the problem of ideology
- The formation of issue concepts and partisan change
- Membership in social groupings
- Class and other social characteristics
- Economic antecedents of political behavior
- The electoral decision
- Electoral behavior and the political system.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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