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Mandates, Parties, and Voters
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Most research on two-party elections has considered the outcome as a single, dichotomous event: either one or the other party wins. In this groundbreaking book, James Fowler and Oleg Smirnov invest...
Most research on two-party elections has considered the outcome as a single, dichotomous event: either one or the other party wins. In this groundbreaking book, James Fowler and Oleg Smirnov investigate not just who wins, but by how much, and they marshal compelling evidence that mandates-in the form of margin of victory-matter. Using theoretical models, computer simulation, carefully designed experiments, and empirical data, the authors show that after an election the policy positions of both parties move in the direction preferred by the winning party-and they move even more if the v
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- Creator
- James H. Fowler, Oleg Smirnov
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- ©2007
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- ISBNs
- 159213596X, 1282568078, 9781592135950, 1592135951, 9786612568077, 1592135943, 9781592135967, 9781592135943
- OCLC
- ocn607552591
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-194) and index.
- English
- Introduction -- Moving with the mandate : policy-motivated parties in dynamic political competition -- Dynamic responsiveness in the U.S. Senate -- Dynamic parties and social turnout : an agent-based model -- A dynamic calculus of voting -- Party responsiveness and mandate balancing -- Patience and turnout -- Markets and mandates : how electoral margins affect the economy -- Conclusion