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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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The Political Consequences of Uninformed Voters
TL;DR: This paper found that when uninformed citizens receive political information, they systematically shift their political preferences away from the Republican Party and toward the Democrats, and that the lack of information in the current American electorate typically produces results that differ from the ideal counterfactual world where all voters are informed.
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Campaign-Related Social Networking and the Political Participation of College Students
TL;DR: The authors found that while interest in politics is a precursor to off-line engagement, it does not predict friending or joining an online social network that is political in nature, however, friending candidates or joining such networks appears to mobilize college students to engage in other forms of political participation.
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Exploring the use of qualitative social psychology in political science : discursive themes of an 18-24 cohort shaping their propensity to vote
TL;DR: This article explored the use of qualitative social psychology in political science and found that the qualitative research within political science was dominated by quantitative realist methodologies and that existing qualitative research methods were ill-equipped to accommodate a linguistic interpretation of events.
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The VP-function: a review
TL;DR: This article studied the relationship between the economy and the incumbent vote share, and found that specific political and economic contexts alter the power of the economic vote in predictable ways in countries with presidential and coalition government.
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Allocating responsibility in multilevel government systems: voter and expert attributions in the European Union
Traci L. Wilson,Sara B. Hobolt +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the extent to which Europeans are able to navigate the complex and ever-changing divisions of responsibility between their national governments and the European Union (EU) and found that extreme attitudes reduce citizen competence by motivating biased information processing.