Social Structure and Voting in the United States
This bookanalyzes practical and moral influences on voting decisions. Undermining the widespreadassumption that economic self-interest is the key determinant of voting choices,it discovers that moral considerations rooted in religious traditions are oftenthe more decisive. This finding is confirmed through a close analysis oftangible problems, such as child neglect and crime, problems which one wouldexpect to trouble practical voters. Further, this book suggests that politicalideologies influence party affiliation, rather than the other way around. It definesfour categories of states in terms of human development and income equality-South,Hea…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-94-017-7487-1
- EAN: 9789401774871
- Produktnummer: 19723111
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 399 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'437 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: 57 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Robert B. Smith (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1971) taught political sociology, research methods, and theory development at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research there focused on war, public opinion, and dissent; generalizations of path analysis; and theoretical modeling. Subsequently, he has worked extensively in applied research. His publications include articles on political and social processes, and on multilevel models bearing on human development. He is the primary editor of the three volumes of the A Handbook of Social Science Methods, which link qualitative and quantitative methods. He is the author of Cumulative Social Inquiry: Transforming Novelty into Innovation (2008) and Multilevel Modeling of Social Problems: A Causal Perspective (2011). Smith was a Fulbright lecturer in structural sociology at Ghent University, Belgium, and he has served as president of the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association. His email address is rsmithphd@comcast.net
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