Why Americans Split Their Tickets
Campaigns, Competition and Divided Government
In Why Americans Split Their Tickets, Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball argue that divided government is produced unintentionally. Using a new quantitative method to analyze voting in presidential, House, and Senate elections from 1952 to 1996, they reject the dominant explanation for divided government, that ticket splitting is done to balance parties that are far from the center. The ideological positions of candidates do not matter in American elections, but voters favor centrist candidates rather than a mix of extremists. When candidates of opposing parties adopt similar platforms, ticket splitting arises. For voters, ideological diffe…
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Weitere Autoren: Kimball, David C.
- ISBN: 978-0-472-08984-0
- EAN: 9780472089840
- Produktnummer: 1766175
- Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 340 g
- Abbildungen: illustrations
- Gewicht: 340
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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