04091nam 22007574a 450 991082095270332120200520144314.01-107-11842-50-511-30208-81-280-42091-X0-511-15179-90-521-66222-20-511-04893-90-511-60586-20-511-17289-3(CKB)111056485619226(EBL)144718(OCoLC)70720414(SSID)ssj0000265000(PQKBManifestationID)11203894(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265000(PQKBWorkID)10293113(PQKB)10538171(UkCbUP)CR9780511605864(Au-PeEL)EBL144718(CaPaEBR)ebr10064276(CaONFJC)MIL42091(MiAaPQ)EBC144718(EXLCZ)9911105648561922619990201d1999 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA unified theory of voting directional and proximity spatial models /Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press19991 online resource (xv, 213 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-66549-3 0-511-01158-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206) and index.Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Alternative Models of Issue Voting; CHAPTER 3 A Unified Model of Issue Voting: Proximity, Direction, and Intensity; CHAPTER 4 Comparing the Empirical Fit of the Directional and Proximity Models for Voter Utility Functions; CHAPTER 5 Empirical Model Fitting Using the Unified Model: Voter Utility; CHAPTER 6 Empirical Fitting of Probabilistic Models of Voter Choice in Two-Party Electorates; CHAPTER 7 Empirical Fitting of Probabilistic Models of Voter Choice in Multiparty ElectoratesCHAPTER 8 Equilibrium Strategies for Two-Candidate Directional Spatial Models; CHAPTER 9 Long-Term Dynamics of Voter Choice and Party Strategy; CHAPTER 10 Strategy and Equilibria in Multicandidate Elections; CHAPTER 11 Strategy under Alternative Multicandidate Voting Procedures; POSTSCRIPT Taking Stock of What's Been Done and What Still Needs to Be Done; Appendices; Glossary of Symbols; References; IndexThis book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme views due to the fact that the voters discount the candidates' abilities to implement policy. The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the US, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.VotingSocial choiceVotingUnited StatesVotingNorwayVotingFranceVoting.Social choice.VotingVotingVoting324.9182/1Merrill Samuel1939-1689354Grofman Bernard145487MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820952703321A unified theory of voting4194173UNINA