The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion (Hardcover)

Editors' Introduction [Justin Fisher, Edward Fieldhouse, Mark Franklin, Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch and Christopher Wlezien]

Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Study of Voter Behavior

1. Democratic Theory and Electoral Behavior [Ian McAllister]

2. The Sociological and Social-Psychological Approaches [Vincent Hutchings and Hakeem Jefferson]

3. Rational Choice Theory and Voting [Keith Dowding]

4. Institutions and Voting Behavior [B. Guy Peters]

Part II: Turnout: Why People Vote (or don’t)

5. The Big Picture: Turnout at the Macro Level [Jack Vowles]

6. Demographic and the Social Bases of Voter Turnout [Eric Plutzer]

7. Turnout and the Calculus of Voting: Recent Advances and Prospects for Integration with Theories of Campaigns and Elections [John Aldrich and Libby M. Jenke]

8. Voting and the Expanding Repertoire of Participation [Jan van Deth]

9. The Acquisition of Voting Habits [Elias Dinas]

Part III: Determinants of Vote Choice

10. Long-term factors: Class and Religious Cleavages [Geoff Evans and Ksenia Northmore-Ball]

11. Ideology and Electoral Choice [Martin Elff]

12. Party Identification [Shaun Bowler]

13. Trends in Partisanship [Oliver Heath]

14. Politics, Media and the Electoral Role of Party Leaders [Anthony Mughan and Loes Aaldering]

15. Preferences, Constraints, and Choices: Tactical Voting in Mass Elections [R. Michael Alvarez, D. Roderick Kiewiet and Lucas Nunez]

16. Economic Voting [Marianne Stewart and Harold Clarke]

Part IV: The Role of Context and Campaigns

17. Electoral Systems [Iain McLean]

18. Electoral Integrity [Pippa Norris]

19. Voting Behavior in Multi-Level Electoral Systems [Hermann Schmitt and Eftichia Teperoglou]

20. Local Context, Social Networks and Neighbourhood Effects on Voter Choice [Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie]

21. Voting Behavior in Referendums [Michael Marsh]

22. Networks, Contexts, and the Process of Political Influence [Robert Huckfeldt, Matthew T. Pietryka and John B. Ryan]

23. Persuasion and Mobilization Effects by Parties and Candidates [Justin Fisher]

24. Campaign Strategies, Media and Voters: The Fourth Era of Political Communication [Holli Semetko and Hubert Tworzecki]

25. The Role of Mass Media in Shaping Public Opinion and Voter Behaviour [Susan Banducci]

26. Digital Campaigning [Stephen Ward, Rachel Gibson and Marta Cantijoch]

Part V: The Nature of Public Opinion

27. Attitudes, Values and Belief Systems [Oddbjørn Knutsen]

28. The Stability of Political Attitudes [Robert Erikson]

29. Political knowledge: Measurement, Misinformation and Turnout [Jennifer Hudson]

30. Is There a Rational Public? [Jørgen Bølstad]

31. The Geometry of Party Competition. Parties and Voters in the Issue Space [Lorenzo de Sio]

31. The Thermostatic Model: The Public, Policy and Politics [Christopher Wlezien]

32. Regime Support [Pedro Magalhaes]

33. Generational Replacement: Engine of Electoral Change [Wouter van der Brug and Mark Franklin]

Part VI: Methodological Challenges and New Developments

34. The Dependent Variable in Election Studies: Studying Respondents or Responses as Units of Analysis [Cees van Der Eijk]

35. The Quest for Representative Survey Samples [Laura Stoker and Andrew McCall]

36. Horses For Courses: Using Internet Surveys for Researching Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour [Edward Fieldhouse and Chris Prosser]

37. The Use of Aggregate Data in the Study of Voting Behavior: Ecological Inference, Ecological Fallacy and Other Applications [Luana Russo]

38. Election Forecasting [Stephen Fisher]

39. Field Experiments in Political Behavior [Donald Green and Erin A. York]

40. Making Inferences About Elections and Public Opinion Using Incidentally Collected Data [Jon Mellon]