Advances in the Spatial Theory of Voting (Hardcover)

James M. Enelow

ISBN 10: 0521352843 / ISBN 13: 9780521352840

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990

About this Item

Hardcover. This volume brings together eight original essays designed to provide an overview of developments in spatial voting theory in the past ten years. The topics covered are: spatial competition with possible entry by new candidates; the "heresthetical" manipulation of vote outcomes; candidates with policy preferences; experimental testing of spatial models; probabilistic voting; voting on alternatives with predictive power; elections with more than two candidates under different election systems; and agenda-setting behavior in voting. Leading scholars in these areas summarize the major results of their own and other's work, providing self-contained discussions that will apprise readers of important recent advances. This volume brings together eight original essays selected to provide an overview of the developments in the spatial theory of voting. The spatial theory of self-interest and explores the consequences of this assumption for elite behaviour and for the choices voters make in representative and direct democracies. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advances in the Spatial Theory of Voting (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521352843
• ISBN 13: 9780521352840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This volume brings together eight original essays selected to provide an overview of the developments in the spatial theory of voting.

Review

"This is a first-rate collection useful to students, practitioners, and critics." George Rabinowitz, Contemporary Sociology