A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521662222)

Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, 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.

Author: Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman
ISBN-10: 0521662222
ISBN-13: 9780521662222
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/1999
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d