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This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in instability. Ruth Dassonneville's core argument, supported by extensive empirical data, is that it is group-based cross-pressures that lead to instability in voters' choices.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- Part I: Voter volatility, long- and short-term determinants of the vote
- 2: How change has been explained
- 3: How socio-demographic factors have fared over time
- 4: Have party attachments weakened?
- 5: Increasingly short-term?
- Part II: A new framework for explaining change: Group-based cross-pressures and voter volatility
- 6: Sources of instability
- 7: Cross-pressured voters
- 8: Increasingly cross-pressured
- 9: The impact of cross-pressures: Less constraint
- 10: Cross pressures, late-deciding, and volatility
- 11: Conclusion
- References
- Part III: Supplementary materials
About the author
Ruth Dassonneville is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy. She has held visiting positions at the Australian National University and the GESIS Institute, and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on voting behaviour, compulsory voting, political parties, and women and politics. Her work on these topics has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research, and Journal of Politics, among others.
Summary
This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in instability. Ruth Dassonneville's core argument, supported by extensive empirical data, is that it is group-based cross-pressures that lead to instability in voters' choices.
