A previous paper showed that a simple prospective model of voting and party identification
subsumed much of the social-psychological and retrospective voting literatures, in the sense …

Here is the unabridged version of the classic theoretical study of voting behavior, originally
published in 1960. It is a standard reference in the field of electoral research, presenting …

Voting is an examination of the factors that make people vote the way they do. Based on the
famous Elmira Study, carried out by a team of skilled social scientists during the 1948 …

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 …

This paper reports on the results of validation of the self-reported registration status and
voting behavior of respondents in the 1976 and 1978 American National Election Studies …

This paper evaluates the ability of common explanatory variables to predict who votes. Logit
voting regressions are estimated with more than three dozen explanatory variables using …

Studies of voting behavior based on microdata date back to the 1920s (Merriam and Gosnell
1924). In the 1930s and 1940s, the scene was dominated by election polls rather than …

This article is a synthetic effort. It attempts to mold the issue voter of traditional democratic
theory and rational choice models with the" nature of the times" and partisan voters of …

Discusses the process of political socialization, the relevance of political attitudes to vote
choice, attitudes and vote change, perceptions and evaluations of parties' stands, and the …

As the research methodology more closely approximates the causal process being
analyzed, the inferences and predictions derived from that methodology will better represent …