Information and elections /
R. Michael Alvarez examines how voters make their decisions in presidential elections. He begins with the assumption that voters have neither the incentive nor the inclination to be well-informed about politics and presidential candidates. Candidates themselves have incentives to provide ambiguous i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©1998.
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Edición: | Rev. to include the 1996 presidential election. |
Colección: | Michigan studies in political analysis.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Elections, Information, and Campaigns
- 3. The Theory of Uncertainty and Elections
- 4. Measuring Uncertainty
- 5. Modeling Uncertainty and Voting
- 6. The Causes of Uncertainty
- 7. Information, Issues, and Candidate Evaluations
- 8. Information and Voting Decisions
- 9. Campaigns and Uncertainty
- 10. The Dynamics of Uncertainty
- 11. Information and Elections
- 12. Uncertainty and Issues in the 1996 Campaign
- Appendixes
- A. Data and Models for Chapter 4
- B. Derivations for Chapter 5C. Data and Models for Chapter 6
- D. Data and Models for Chapter 7
- E. Data and Models for Chapter 8
- F. Data and Models for Chapter 12
- References
- Index