Explaining and Predicting Elections : Issue Effects and Party Strategies in Twenty-Three Democracies (Hardcover)

Introduction ?1. Previous Work? 2. Saliency Theory? 3. Issues and Votes? 4. Predicting Elections? 5. Electoral Volatility? 6. Party Appeals? 7. General Theory?? References ?Appendix A: Postwar Votes in Twenty-Three Democracies? Appendix B: Issues and Scorings for Individual Postwar Elections in Twenty-Three Democracies? Appendix C: The Coding of Issues: Procedures and their Validity? Appendix D: Scoring Election Issues: Assumptions and Performance of Alternative schemes ?