A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models

By: Grofman, Bernard N.

Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521665493
• ISBN13: 9780521665490
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"