Description
The study of voting behaviour remains a vibrant sub-discipline of political science. The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an authoritative and wide ranging survey of this dynamic field, drawing together a team of the world′s leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art review that sets the agenda for future study.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on a range of countries, the handbook is composed of eight parts. The first five cover the principal theoretical paradigms, establishing the state of the art in their conceptualisation and application, and followed by chapters on their specific challenges and innovative applications in contemporary voting studies. The remaining three parts explore elements of the voting process to understand their different effects on vote outcomes.
The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an essential benchmark publication for advanced students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of politics, sociology, psychology and research methods.
Table of Contents
01 Introduction - Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans & Michael S. Lewis-Beck
INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES
02 Institutional effects on voter choice - Shaun Bowler
03 Party systems and voter alignments - Asa von Schoultz
04 Voter behaviour in 2nd order elections - Herman Schmitt and Eftikia Teperoglou
05 Clarity of responsibility - Thiago Silva and Guy Whitten
06 Voting in new democracies - Lenka Bustikova and Elizabeth Zechmeister
SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES
07 Age(ing) - Ruth Dassonneville
08 Gender - Rosie Campbell
09 Class - Geoff Evans
10 Religion - Martin Elff and Sigrid Rossteutscher
11 Ethnicity - Maria Sobolewska
12 Social networks and voter mobilisation - Marc Hooghe
PARTISANSHIP
13 Evolving role of partisanship - Elias Dinas
14 Party identification: a reassessment - Don Green and Susanne Baltes
15 Cognitive mobilisation - Todd Donovan
VOTER DECISION-MAKING
16 Strategic voting - Thomas Gschwend and Michael Meffert
17 Genetics - Carisa Bergner and Pete Hatemi
18 Affect - David Redlawsk and Douglas Pierce
19 Referenda - Alan Renwick
20 Turnout - Hanna Wass and André Blais
ISSUES AND ATTITUDES
21 Ideology and core values - Robert Lupton, Adam Enders and William Jacoby
22 Issue ownership - Wouter van der Brug
23 Valence and competence - Jane Green and Will Jennings
24 Value cleavages - Romain Lachat
25 Evaluating the economy - Marina Costa Lobo and Mike Lewis-Beck
26 VP-function: a review - Mary Stegmaier, Beomseob Park and Mike Lewis-Beck
CANDIDATES AND CAMPAIGNS
27 Voter evaluations of candidates - Diego Garzia
28 Geolocation - Jocelyn Evans
29 Personal vote - Thomas Zittel
30 Candidate attractiveness - Markus Klein and Ulrich Rosar
31 Campaign effects - Richard Johnston
32 Media and campaigns - Diane Mutz and Eunji Kim
33 Campaign spending - Zachary Albert and Ray La Raja
POLLING AND FORECASTING
34 Opinion polling and vote - Rob Ford, Chris Wlezien, Mark Pickup and Will Jennings
35 Econometric approaches to forecasting - Eric Bélanger and David Trotter
36 Wisdom of crowds - Andreas Murr
37 Political markets - Andreas Graefe
38 Social media and elections - Luigi Curini, Stefano Iacus and Andrea Ceron
METHODS
39 Survey experiments - Rob Johns
40 Multi-level modelling - Marcel Lubbers and Take Sipma
41 Cross-national data sources - Catherine de Vries
42 Psephology and technology - Kai Arzheimer
43 Conclusion - Marianne Stewart
