In this paper we describe the role of national election studies in voting behavior research in
Europe and the United States. We begin with an overview of the organizational development …

This article discusses the developments of electoral behavior. It is shown that the political
aspects of the Columbia studies are the ones that have turned out to have the most influence …

Academic studies of elections are not in the business of predicting outcomes. They are in the
business of explaining them. The best studies treat voting data as raw material with which to …

National and other election studies suffer from a number of problems that can be addressed
if electoral researchers focus first and foremost on the 'core business' of election studies …

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The study of congressional elections is a growth area in the field of voting behavior as
evidenced by two recent books on the topic (Hinckley, 1981; Jacobson, 1983) and scores of …

Over the last decade or two, academic survey studies of elections have moved from the
preserve of a small, select band of researchers in a few countries to frequent, large-scale …

Although electoral survey research originated in the United States, many countries soon
followed suit. To date, many advanced industrial democracies conduct national election …

This article focuses on different perspectives on electoral behaviour. Most of the article is
spent identifying possible future trends in comparative research on electoral behaviour. The …

The Canadian Election Study is a case in point, because circumstances certainly allowed it,
but could be said to have forced it, to become the prime site for the study of campaigns. The …