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TRADITIONAL BELIEFS AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR

World Affairs, 2023
The party system literature has generally paid little attention to whether traditional beliefs have any impact on voters’ electoral behavior and the stability of party systems. The purpose of the present study shows that the stability of party systems and the pervasiveness of traditional beliefs go hand‐in‐hand.
Riccardo Pelizzo   +3 more
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Electoral Behavior in Israel

2019
This chapter reviews, analyzes, and explains general patterns of electoral behavior in national elections in Israel from 1949 to 2019. It examines both patterns of voter turnout and the choice of a specific party. While it looks at historical trends, it focuses mainly on more recent developments. The types of factors that explain variance and trends in
Assaf Shapira, Gideon Rahat
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Congressional Behavior and Electoral Marginality

American Journal of Political Science, 1978
The "marginality" hypothesis maintains that members of Congress from marginal districts will display more moderation in their voting behavior than will those from safe districts. We give two alternative interpretations to the hypothesis: Candidates from more marginal districts will: (1) tend to converge to the positions of their constituents; and (2 ...
John L. Sullivan, Eric M. Uslaner
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The Study of Russian Electoral Behavior

Russian Social Science Review, 2001
The political process in Russia depends largely on the behavior of political actors, especially those in power. The events of recent years demonstrate how much power determines the country's political life. These events include Yeltsin's victory in the 1996 presidential elections, the success of Unity [Edinstvo] in December 1999, and the president's ...
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A Behavioral Theory of Electoral Structure

Political Behavior, 2017
Why are party systems in modern democracies so essentially robust? We theorize patterns of electoral competition as the outcome of a struggle between entropy and structure. Forces of entropy entail idiosyncratic voting behavior guided by subjective evaluations, while forces of structure entail coordinated behavior emerging from objective aspects of ...
Till Weber, Mark N. Franklin
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The Study of Electoral Behavior

2010
Abstract This article discusses the developments of electoral behavior. It is shown that the political aspects of the Columbia studies are the ones that have turned out to have the most influence on subsequent voting research. This work demonstrated the rich potential of election surveys as data for understanding campaigns and elections.
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