Author : Jerod Drew Seib
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (813 download)
Book Synopsis Frantic Voters by : Jerod Drew Seib
Download or read book Frantic Voters written by Jerod Drew Seib and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have researched how voters make decisions for well over a half a century, but these studies are limited in what they are able to say about how voters make decisions because they have focused on the choice rather than the process. Most of these studies have focused on the choice that voters reach or the way their memories are structured, overlooking the importance of the search and acquisition of information. Specifically, scholars in political science have paid little attention to how contextual variations in the information environment affect how voters make decisions. This dissertation investigate's how changes in context affect how voters search for information. The author explores three specific contexts: the number of offices on the ballot, the availability of partisan information about the candidates, and the presence or absence of campaign dialogue between two candidates. Indeed, one of the prominent features of American elections is the variation in the number of elections across jurisdictions, the availability of partisan information about candidates, and the amount of campaign dialogue between candidates--the three contexts that the author examines in this study.