LEADER 04091nam 22007574a 450 001 9910820952703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-11842-5 010 $a0-511-30208-8 010 $a1-280-42091-X 010 $a0-511-15179-9 010 $a0-521-66222-2 010 $a0-511-04893-9 010 $a0-511-60586-2 010 $a0-511-17289-3 035 $a(CKB)111056485619226 035 $a(EBL)144718 035 $a(OCoLC)70720414 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000265000 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11203894 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265000 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293113 035 $a(PQKB)10538171 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511605864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL144718 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10064276 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL42091 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC144718 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485619226 100 $a19990201d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA unified theory of voting $edirectional and proximity spatial models /$fSamuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 0 $a0-521-66549-3 311 0 $a0-511-01158-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 196-206) and index. 327 $aPreliminaries; 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 Electorates 327 $aCHAPTER 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; Index 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aVoting 606 $aSocial choice 606 $aVoting$zUnited States 606 $aVoting$zNorway 606 $aVoting$zFrance 615 0$aVoting. 615 0$aSocial choice. 615 0$aVoting 615 0$aVoting 615 0$aVoting 676 $a324.9182/1 700 $aMerrill$b Samuel$f1939-$01689354 701 $aGrofman$b Bernard$0145487 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820952703321 996 $aA unified theory of voting$94194173 997 $aUNINA