Controversies in voting behavior /

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Edition:5th ed.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2011.
Description:x, 468 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8531559
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Other authors / contributors:Niemi, Richard G.
Weisberg, Herbert F.
Kimball, David C., 1966-
ISBN:9780872894679 (alk. paper)
0872894673 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • The study of voting and elections
  • Is political participation declining or simply changing form?
  • News vs. entertainment : how increasing media choice widens gaps in political knowledge and turnout / Markus Prior
  • Voter turnout : eligibility has its benefits / Michael P. McDonald
  • How important are informational differences among voters?
  • The Oprah effect : how soft news helps inattentive citizens vote consistently / Matthew A. Baum and Angela S. Jamison
  • Advantages and disadvantages of cognitive heuristics in political decision making / Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk
  • Political sophistication and policy reasoning : a reconsideration (updated) / Paul Goren
  • Are economic factors weakening as vote determinants?
  • The political conditioning of economic perceptions / Geoffrey Evans and Robert Andersen
  • Purple America / Stephen Ansolabehere, Jonathan Rodden, and James M. Snyder, Jr.
  • Is the American electorate polarized?
  • Resurgent mass partisanship : the role of elite polarization (updated) / Marc J. Hetherington
  • Is polarization a myth? / Alan I. Abramowitz and Kyle L. Saunders
  • Polarization in the American public : misconceptions and misreadings / Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams, and Jeremy C. Pope
  • The 2008 election : polarization continues / Alan I. Abramowitz
  • Where's the polarization? / Morris P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Adams
  • What are the sources of the Republican realignment in the South?
  • Economic development and a politics of class / Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston
  • The reintroduction of the Elephas maximus to the southern United States : the rise of Republican state parties, 1960-2000 (updated) / M.V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris
  • Racial and moral issues in the evolution of the "Southern strategy" / D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd G. Shields.