Voting the Agenda : : Candidates, Elections, and Ballot Propositions / / Stephen P. Nicholson.

How do voters make decisions in low-information elections? How distinctive are these voting decisions? Traditional approaches to the study of voting and elections often fail to address these questions by ignoring other elections taking place simultaneously. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Nicho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2005
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (188 p.) :; 12 line illus. 20 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1 Kindred Votes: An Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2 A Theory of Agenda Voting
  • CHAPTER 3 Studying Agendas and Direct Legislation in U.S. Elections
  • CHAPTER 4 Ballot Measures and Congressional Election Agendas
  • CHAPTER 5 Priming the Freeze: Nuclear Freeze Ballot Measures as a Common Basis of Candidate Voting in State and Federal Elections
  • CHAPTER 6 Taking the Initiative: Illegal Immigrants, Affirmative Action, and Strategic Politicians in California’s 1994 and 1996 Elections
  • CHAPTER 7 Direct Democracy: The People’s Agenda?
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX