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UNINA9910510572903321 |
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Denver David |
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Elections and Voters in Britain |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022 |
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1 online resource (338 pages) |
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Studying British Elections -- Why Study Elections? -- Studying Elections -- Analysing Election Results -- Surveys of the Electorate -- Election Results and Survey Data Compared -- Theories of Voting -- The Sociological Approach and the Michigan Model -- Voting as Rational Choice -- References -- 2 Turnout: Why People Vote (or Don't) -- Turnout Variations Over Time -- Turnout Variations Across Constituencies -- Survey Studies of Non-voting -- Who Votes? -- Age and Turnout -- The Consequences of Low Turnout -- Conclusion: What Is to Be Done About Low Turnout? -- References -- 3 The Changing British Party System -- Class and the Two-Party System -- Measuring Class and Class Voting -- Religion -- Partisan Alignment -- An Alternative View of Party Identification -- Dealignment -- Class Dealignment -- Partisan Dealignment -- The Causes of Dealignment -- 'Bottom Up' Explanations -- 'Top Down' Explanations -- Dealignment and Electoral Volatility -- Inter-Election Volatility -- Mid-term Movements -- Campaign Swithering -- From Dealignment to Realignment? -- References -- 4 Issues, Policies and Performance -- Issue Voting -- Which Issues Matter? -- Measuring Issue Voting -- Position Issues, Policies and Ideology -- Issues or Ideology? -- Ideology: A Spatial View -- Politics in Two Dimensions -- Valence Issues and Performance -- The Economy and Voting -- The |
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'Traditional' or Aggregate Approach -- The Individual-Level Approach -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Party Images and Party Leaders -- Party Images -- The Content of Party Images -- Party Images and Party Choice -- Party Leaders -- Why Leadership Matters (More) -- Leader Evaluations and Party Choice -- The Sources of Party and Leader Images -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Campaigning and the Media -- National Campaigning. |
Opinion Polls -- The Media -- Media Effects -- Television -- The National Press -- Constituency Campaigning -- The Digital Campaign -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 The Geography of British Elections -- Regional Variations -- Urban-Rural Variations -- Explaining Regional Variations -- Constituency Variations -- Tactical Voting -- Localities and Neighbourhoods -- Explaining the Impact of the Local Political Environment -- References -- 8 Elections and Electoral Systems -- The Operation of First-Past-the-Post -- Representativeness -- Regional Imbalance -- Bias -- 'Wasted' Votes and Safe Seats -- Drawing the Boundaries -- In Defence of First-Past-the-Post -- Elections and Voting Under Different Electoral Systems -- Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)/Additional Member System (AMS) Elections -- Single Transferable Vote (STV) -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Referendums -- Definition and Role -- The British Experience -- Referendums and Voters in Britain -- Turnout -- Vote Choice -- The Role of the Campaign -- In Defence of (Some) Direct Democracy -- References -- 10 Elections and Party Choice in Britain Today -- Explaining Party Choice -- The Sociological Approach and the Michigan model -- Models Based on Rational Choice -- Issue Voting -- Valence Voting -- Explaining Election Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary of Statistical and Technical Terms -- References -- Author Index -- Index. |
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UNINA9910817250703321 |
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Bobkov Serguei G (Serguei Germanovich), <1961-> |
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Entropy bounds and isoperimetry / / S.G. Bobkov, B. Zegarlinski |
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Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2005] |
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©2005 |
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1 online resource (88 p.) |
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 829 |
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Isoperimetric inequalities |
Entropy (Information theory) |
Inequalities (Mathematics) |
Boundary value problems |
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"Volume 176, number 829 (first of 4 numbers)." |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-69). |
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""Chapter 9. Isoperimetry""""Chapter 10. The localization argument""; ""Chapter 11. Infinitesimal version""; ""Chapter 12. Proof of Theorem 9.2""; ""Chapter 13. Euclidean distance (proof of Theorem 9.1)""; ""Chapter 14. Uniformly convex bodies""; ""Chapter 15. From Isoperimetry to LS[sub(q)]-inequalities""; ""Chapter 16. Isoperimetric Functional Inequalities""; ""Bibliography"" |
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