Issue Voting: An Introduction Ole Borre Paperback

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In our poll-driven age, political attitude surveys have become something of an academic industry. Researchers have proposed numerous models to explain the relationship between a particular issue and voter behaviour, but there is no consensus on which approaches work best. Issue Voting offers a welcome overview of the various models in use today, their strengths and their shortcomings. In the early days of democracy, issues played a leading role in shaping American and Western European party systems. Liberal parties were formed explicitly to combat privilege, conservative parties to defend the military or the monarchy, socialist parties to champion unions, agrarian parties to campaign for the redistribution of land. However, by the time the first election studies came out in the 1940s, issue voting was of minor importance. Instead, the vote of the ordinary citizen reflected group norms -- class, ethnic, religious and geographical norms -- and the main factor in voting behaviour was pa...

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