Week 16 What are elections for and why should we study them?
• Dalton, Russell & Hans-Dieter Klingemann. “Citizens and Political Behavior.”
Chapter 1
• Dalton, Russell J. Citizen politics: Public opinion and political parties in advanced
industrial democracies. Chapters 2 & 7.
Week 17 Why do people vote (or don’t vote)?
• A. Downs, 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. Chapters 3 & 14.
• Dalton, Russell J. Citizen politics: Public opinion and political parties in advanced
industrial democracies. Chapters 3 & 4.
Week 18 How do people reason about voting and politics?
• Dalton, Russell J. Citizen politics: Public opinion and political parties in advanced
industrial democracies. Chapter 2.
• R. Lau and D. Redlawski, 2006. How Voters Decide, Cambridge University
Press, chapters 1 & 2.
Week 19 Policy issues, Valence issues, and Issue salience
• A. Downs, 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy (the article)
• Stokes, Donald E. 1963. ‘Spatial Models of Party Competition’, American Political
Science Review 57: 368-77.
Week 20 Why do people vote for one party rather than another? I
• Dalton, Russell J. Citizen politics: Public opinion and political parties in advanced
industrial democracies. Chapters 6, 8 & 9.
Week 21 Why do people vote for one party rather than another? II
• Dalton, Russell J. Citizen politics: Public opinion and political parties in advanced
industrial democracies. Chapters 10 & 11.
• D. Denver, C. Carmen and R. Johns, Elections and Voters in Britain. Chapter 8
Week 22 Electoral systems, political contexts, and voting I
• Jackman and Miller (1995) “Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies during
the 1980s”
• Mark Gray and Miki Caul (2020). “Declining Voter Turnout in Advanced Industrial
Democracies, 1950 to 1997”
Week 23 Electoral systems, political contexts, and voting II
• David Brockington (2004) “The Paradox of Proportional Representation: The
Effect of Party Systems and Coalitions on Individuals’ Electoral Participation”
• “Chapter 15: Preferences, constraints, and choices: Tactical voting in mass
elections” in The Routledge handbook of elections, voting behavior and public
opinion.
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Week 24 Age and Gender differences in participation in politics
• Turnbull‐Dugarte, Stuart J. “The European lavender vote: Sexuality, ideology and
vote choice in Western Europe.” European Journal of Political Research 59, no. 3
(2020): 517-537.
• Dassonneville, Ruth, and Filip Kostelka. “The Cultural Sources of the Gender
Gap in Voter Turnout.” British Journal of Political Science (2019): 1-22.
• Phelps, Edward. “Young citizens and changing electoral turnout, 1964–
2001.” Political quarterly 75, no. 3 (2004): 238-248.
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