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Voting the agenda : candidates, elections, and ballot propositions /

"In this grounbreaking book, Stephen Nicholson shows how issue agendas shaped by state ballot propositions prime voting decisions for presidential, gubernatorial, Senate, House, and state legislative races." "As a readily accessible source of information, the issues raised by ballot p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nicholson, Stephen P., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Kindred votes : an introduction
  • A theory of agenda voting
  • Studying agendas and direct legislation in U.S. elections
  • Ballot measures and Congressional election agendas
  • Priming the freeze : nuclear freeze ballot measures as a common basis of candidate voting in state and federal elections
  • Taking the initiative : illegal immigrants, affirmative action, and strategic politicians in California's 1994 and 1996 elections
  • Direct democracy : the people's agenda?