The debate over the relative importance of ideology versus party for vote choice in France is
enduring. Resolution of the debate would have much value, for the light shed on sources of …

In French election studies, a central debate concerns the French voter's 'standing decision'–
is it party or ideology? The debate has been ongoing because of data and measurement …

What is the" standing decision" rule that guides the French voter? Party or ideology?
Converse and Pierce (1993), commenting on their 1986 volume, say that" the tilt of our …

The decline of the explanatory power of the Michigan model of party identification led to
increased importance being given to models based on short-term factors. Among such …

Explanations of electoral choice most frequently focus on the isolated characteristics of
voters and examine those characteristics using linear, additive formulations. We explore two …

Conventional wisdom, buttressed by numerous empirical studies, has questioned the
importance of both class and ideological factors on voting behavior in Canada. However …

Social-psychological models of voting behaviour systematically downsize the relevance of
party leader evaluations by conceiving them as mere consequences of causally prior …

While ideology is widely considered to be an important factor in shaping policy outcomes
and in influencing election outcomes, there has been no comprehensive effort to assess the …

This study estimates a model of voter choice for the first and second ballots of the 1995
French Presidential election. Its objective is to characterize the relative importance of …

Most conventional accounts of voting behaviour fit single models to the entire electorate,
implicitly assuming that all voters respond to the same sets of influences, and do so in …