A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors by James F. Adams, Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman

A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors



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A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors James F. Adams, Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman
Language: English
Page: 332
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521836441, 9780511115554
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This book explains how parties and candidates locate themselves on the Left-Right ideological dimension and other issue dimensions. It offers a unified theoretical approach to voter behavior and party strategies that takes into account voter preferences, voter's partisan attachments, expected turnout, and the location of the political status quo. This approach is tested using extensive cross-national analyses. Elections studied include the plurality-based two-party contests in the U.S. and multiple-party competition in France, Britain, and Norway using a variety of election rules. Broad support is found for this general model.

About the Author

James Adams is Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara. His primary research interest is the application of spatial modeling to real world elections, and the insights this approach can provide into theories of political representation. He is the author of Party Competition and Responsible Party Government: A Theory of Spatial Competition Based upon Insights from Behavioral Voting Research (University of Michigan Press, 2001), as well as articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Public Choice.

Samuel Merrill, III, is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wilkes University. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University. His current research involves mathematical and statistical modeling, particularly in political science. He is the author (with Bernard Grofman) of A Unified Theory of Voting (1999, Cambridge University Press) and Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic (Princeton University Press, 1988) and has published in a number of journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington.

Bernard Grofman is Professor of Political Science (and adjunct Professor of Economics) at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1972. He is an expert on comparative election systems and models of voting, and social choice theory. He has published over 200 articles in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and Public Choice, and he has authored or co-edited seventeen books. He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, and the University of Mannheim, and a scholar-in-residence at the University of Bologna, Kansai University (Osaka), the German Science Center (Berlin), Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and the Brookings Institution. He is past president of the Public Choice Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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