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| Varying Form of Title: | Information & elections
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| ISBN: | 9780472022373
0472022377
0472085751
9780472085750
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | R. Michael Alvarez examines how voters make their decisions in presidential elections. He begins with the assumption that voters have neither the incentive nor the inclination to be well-informed about politics and presidential candidates. Candidates themselves have incentives to provide ambiguous information about themselves, their records and their issue positions. Yet the author shows that a tremendous amount of information is made available about presidential candidates. And he uncovers clear and striking evidence that people are not likely to vote for candidates about whom they know very little. Alvarez explores how voters learn about candidates through the course of a campaign. He provides a detailed analysis of the media coverage of presidential campaigns and shows that there is a tremendous amount of media coverage of these campaigns, that much of this coverage is about issues and is informative, and that voters learn from this coverage.
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| Other form: | Print version: Alvarez, R. Michael, 1964- Information and elections. Rev. to include the 1996 presidential election. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998 9780472085750
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