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Voters Under Pressure - Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility (Hardcover)
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Voters Under Pressure - Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time
and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in
electoral volatility. Ruth Dassonneville's core argument, supported
by extensive empirical data, is that group-based cross-pressures
lead to instability in voters' choices. She theorizes that when
citizens' socio-demographic characteristics and their membership of
social groups do not consistently push them to support one party,
but instead lead them to feel cross-pressured between parties,
their voting decision process lacks constraint. Voters who are
group-based cross-pressured are less likely to feel an attachment
to a party, and have less guidance when assessing the state of the
economy, when taking positions on issues, or evaluating leaders.
The different factors that influence voters' choices, as a result,
do not add up to strengthening a preference for one specific party
but instead lead a voter to consider different parties. To test
this argument, the book makes use of election survey data from
eight established democracies that allow the study of voting
behaviour and its correlates over several decades. These data are
complemented with data from the European Election Studies project
and from election study panels. The book shows that group-based
cross-pressures are an important source of instability as they
affect the extent to which citizens' voting decision process is
structured. This is evident from the fact that cross-pressured
voters are more ambivalent between parties, make their voting
decision later, and are more likely to switch parties from one
election to the next. Comparative Politics is a series for
researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals
with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books
in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis
and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in
association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by
Nicole Bolleyer, Chair of Comparative Political Science,
Geschwister Scholl Institut, LMU Munich and Jonathan Slapin,
Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics,
Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.
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