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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.
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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."

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Deep Interactions with MRP: Election Turnout and Voting Patterns Among Small Electoral Subgroups

TL;DR: The authors used multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP) to estimate the voter turnout and vote choice for the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, using a series of examples to demonstrate the flexibility of their method.
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Quantifying Social Media’s Political Space: Estimating Ideology from Publicly Revealed Preferences on Facebook

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model to estimate the ideology of politicians and their supporters using social media data on individual citizens' endorsements of political figures, and validated the ideological estimates that result from the scaling process by showing they correlate highly with existing measures of ideology from Congress, and with individual-level self-reported political views.
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More is Better: The Influence of Collective Female Descriptive Representation on External Efficacy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test whether increased proportions of collective female descriptive representation in the statehouse and the presence of a female state executive are important to female citizens' attitudes toward government responsiveness, or external efficacy.
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Strategic Voting, party activity, and candidate effects: Testing explanations for split voting in New Zealand's new mixed system.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of voter confusion on split voting in New Zealand's mixed electoral system and found that strategic defections are more likely to occur when the preferred candidate is not viable.
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Campaign Effects and the Dynamics of Turnout Intention in Election 2000

TL;DR: The authors used a Markov chain transition model to test the effects of campaign efforts on turnout intention conditional on precampaign turnout intention and found that different campaign efforts are effective for intended nonvoters than for intended voters.