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Political Choice in Britain (Hardcover)
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Political Choice in Britain (Hardcover)
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Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all?
What do they think about elections, political parties, and
democracy? This important book by four leading scholars addresses
these questions. Using a wealth of data from the 1964-2001 British
election studies, monthly Gallup polls, and numerous other national
surveys conducted over the past four decades, the authors test the
explanatory power of rival sociological and individual rationality
models of turnout and party choice. Analyses of party choice
endorse a valence politics model that challenges the long-dominant
social class model. British voters make their political choices by
evaluating the performance of parties and party leaders in economic
and other important policy areas. Although these evaluations may be
products of events and conditions that occur long before an
election campaign officially begins, parties' national and local
campaign activities are also influential. Consistent with the
valence politics model, partisan attachments display individual-
and aggregate-level dynamics that reflect ongoing judgements about
the managerial abilities of parties and their leaders. A general
incentives model provides the best explanation of turnout.
Calculations of the costs and influence-discounted benefits of
voting and sense of civic duty are key variables in this model.
Significantly, the decline in turnout in recent elections does not
reflect more general negative trends in public attitudes about the
political system. Voters judge the performance of British democracy
in much the same way as they evaluate its parties and politicians.
Support at all levels of the system is a renewable resource, but
one that must be renewed. A command of theory, data, models, and
method ensure that Political Choice in Britain will be a major
resource for all those interested in elections, voting, and
democracy.
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