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Informationen zum Autor By Ian Budge; Ivor Crewe and Dennis Farlie Klappentext First published in 1976! this classic volume of original essays provides a unique and comprehensive review of the approaches and assumptions that dominate the field of election studies and voting behaviour. Critical reviews of theory and established research are combined with innovative and original studies of a variety of European countries! as well as North America. The volume presents valuable comparative data and methodological insights! including statistical analyses of voting data and critical accounts of major approaches to the representation of voting and party competition. These include party identification (the socio-psychological approach); dimensional analysis (the production of party spaces based on social and political cleavages); and rational choice analysis (the interaction between voters and parties within a policy space). This edition includes a new introduction by Ian Budge. Inhaltsverzeichnis New introduction to the ECPR Press edition - Ian Budge i List of contributors xv Preface xvii PART I - Party identification: its theoretical and measurement status 1 Introduction: party identification and beyond 3 The cross-national use of party identification as a stimulus to political inquiry - Warren E. Miller 21 Party identification theory and political change in Britain - Ivor Crewe 33 Party identification as a cross - national concept: its meaning in the Netherlands - Jacques Thomassen 63 Party identification and voting behaviour in the west German election of 1969 - Max Kaase 81 A comparative analysis of factors correlated with turnout and voting choice - Ian Budge and Dennis Farlie 103 PART II - Dimensional analysis 127 Introduction: the relationship of dimensional analysis to party identification and policy - based models 129 The changing party space in Danish voter perceptions! 1971 - 73 - Jerrold G. Rusk and Ole Borre 137 Cleavage structures and representational linkages: a longitudinal analysis of Danish legislative behaviour - Erik Damgaard and Jerrold G. Rusk 163 Party preference spaces and voting change in Belgium - Andre - Paul Frognier 189 Exploring political space: a study of french voters' preferences - Gary A. Mauser and Jacqueline Freyssinet - Dominjon 203 The left! the right! the establishment and the swiss electorate - Ronald Inglehart and Dusan Sidjanski 225 Party identification! ideological preference and the left - right dimension among western mass publics - Ronald Inglehart and Hans D. Klingemann 243 PART III - Rational choice and party identification 275 Introduction: rational choice! policy spaces and party identification 277 The spatial theory of elections: a review and a critique - Peter C. Ordeshook 285 Strategic campaign behaviour for electors and parties; the northern Ireland assembly election of 1973 - Michael Laver 315 Testing explanations of voting turnout in Canada - William P. Irvine 335 Testing models of voting choice in Canada - William P. Irvine 353 Surrogates for party identification in the rational choice framework - David Robertson 365 Placing party identification within a typology of representations of voting and party competition and proposing a synthesis - Dennis Farlie and Ian Budge 383 Index 395 ...
