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Duty and Choice

Duty and Choice

The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters

Edited by Peter John Loewen and Daniel Rubenson

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

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9781442619807
Published: July 2019

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9781442619791
Published: July 2019

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Devoted to exploring elections as the central act in a democracy, Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters is animated by a set of three overarching questions: Why do some citizens vote while others do not? How do voters decide to cast their ballots for one candidate and not another? How does the context in which citizens live influence the choices they make? Organized into three sections focused on turnout, vote choice, and electoral systems, the volume seeks to provide novel insights into the most pressing questions for scholars of vote choice and voting behaviour. In addition to featuring several prominent Canadian scholars, the collection includes chapters by leading scholars from the United States and Europe.

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Foreword

1 Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters
Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and Maxime Héroux-Legault

Part I: Voter Turnout

2 Altruism, Participation, and Political Context
Cindy D. Kam, Skyler J. Cranmer, and James H. Fowler

3 Behavioural Anomalies Explain Variation in Voter Turnout
Christopher Dawes, Peter John Loewen, and Gabriel Arsenault

4 Civic Duty and Social Pressure as Causes of Voter Turnout
Donald P. Green

5 The Preferences of Voters and Non-Voters in Canada (1988−2008)
Jean-François Godbout and Mathieu Turgeon

Part II: Vote Choice

6 The Economy and Federal Election Outcomes in Canada: Taking Provincial Economic Conditions into Account
Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, and Bruno Jérôme

7 Who Responds to Election Campaigns? The Two-Moderator Model Revisited
Patrick Fournier, Fred Cutler, and Stuart Soroka

8 Bureaucrats, Policy Attitudes, and Political Behaviour: A Reappraisal
James C. Garand and Ping Xu

Part III: Electoral Systems

9 How Electoral Systems Shape What Voters Think about Democracy
Christopher J. Anderson

10 Party Strategies, Institutions, and Electoral System Effects
Romain Lachat

11 When Do Voters Act Strategically? Institutional and Individual Variation in the Incidence of Strategic Voting in Democracies
John Aldrich and Laura B. Stephenson

12 The Future of Election Studies and the Study of Elections
Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and André Blais

Contributors
Index

Peter John Loewen is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Daniel Rubenson is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University.