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The American voter
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The "The American Voter" as mentioned in this paper is the unabridged version of the classic theoretical study of voting behavior, originally published in 1960, and is a standard reference in the field of electoral research, presenting formulations of the theoretical issues that have been the focus of scholarly publication.Abstract:
Here is the unabridged version of the classic theoretical study of voting behavior, originally published in 1960. It is a standard reference in the field of electoral research, presenting formulations of the theoretical issues that have been the focus of scholarly publication. No single study matches the study of "The American Voter."read more
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In-group loyalty and the punishment of corruption
TL;DR: The authors showed that people support corrupt candidates as long as they share a group identity and are willing to sacrifice material payoffs to do so, and they suggest that candidates can get away with corruption by engaging in identity politics.
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A Bayesian learning model with applications to party identification
TL;DR: This paper argued that this earlier work has focused too much on the content of the labels, and pointed out that party labels operate like brand names that citizens use to inform their votes, and argued that they should be used instead of brand names themselves.
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Why Voters Decide Late: A Simultaneous Test of Old and New Hypotheses at the 2005 and 2009 German Federal Elections
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors simultaneously test four complementary hypotheses on the background of contemporary electors' timing of decision-making and conclude that lacking partisan predispositions and a general detachment from politics appear as the main reasons why people take longer to make up their minds.
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Personality Traits and the Sense of Civic Duty
TL;DR: In this paper, individual personality traits were used as a potential explanation for why some people feel a stronger sense of civic duty than others, with Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Openness having statistically significant (p <.05) effects.
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Left and Right With Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China
Andrew J. Nathan,Tianjian Shi +1 more
TL;DR: A 1990 national sample survey showed that the Chinese population was concerned with issues relating to reform, economic and social grievances, and democracy as mentioned in this paper, and although neither political issues nor social cleavages were the same as in the West, the same dynamics affected the process of ideological alignment.