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  • Inside the Mind of a Voter

    A New Approach to Electoral Psychology

    by Michael Bruter, Sarah Harrison ...
    An in-depth look into the psychology of voters around the world, how voters shape elections, and how elections transform citizens and affect their livesCould understanding whether elections make people happy and bring them closure matter more than who they vote for? What if people did not vote for what they want but for what they believe is right based on roles they implicitly assume? Do elections ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Youth Participation in Democratic Life

    Stories of Hope and Disillusion

    by Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Bart Cammaerts, Nick Anstead ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understand democracy broadly as both institutional politics and civic cultures, and a wide range of methods are used to analyse and assess youth participation and attitudes. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Inside the Mind of a Voter

    A New Approach to Electoral Psychology

    by Michael Bruter, Sarah Harrison ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    This book invites listeners on a unique journey inside the mind of a voter using unprecedented data from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Africa, and Georgia throughout a period when the world evolved from the centrist dominance of Obama and Mandela to the shock victories of Brexit and Trump. Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison explore three interrelated aspects of the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Veto Players

    How Political Institutions Work

    by George Tsebelis ...
    Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

    by John R. Zaller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Behavioral Theory of Elections

    by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, David A. Siegel, Michael M. Ting ...
    Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of rationality. This groundbreaking book provides a behavioral theory of elections based on the notion that all actors--politicians ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • News That Matters

    Television & American Opinion

    by Shanto Iyengar, Donald R. Kinder ...
    Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulting book News That Matters, now hailed as a classic by scholars of political science and public opinion alike, is here updated for the twenty-first ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters

    by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler ...
    In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.The authors maintain that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Theory and Credibility

    Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science

    by Scott Ashworth, Christopher R. Berry, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita ...
    A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social scienceThe credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable. Theory and Credibility stakes out an ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    by J. Eric Oliver ...
    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reasoning Voter

    Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns

    by Samuel L. Popkin ...
    The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns—Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984—to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and sound bites to choose a candidate. Drawing on ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates

    by Stanley A Renshon ...
    Debate on public issues--and where candidates stand on them-- have traditionally represented the focal point of presidential campaigns. In recent decades, however, rather than asking where candidates stand on the issues, the public increasingly wants to know who they are. The issue of character has thus come to dominate presidential elections.While there is increasing public awareness that the ... Read more

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