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Demanding Choices : Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1998Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023349
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Demanding ChoicesDDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • JF1051
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. The History of Direct Democracy: A Critique of Voter Competence -- 2. Reasoning Voters: Sorting through the Demands of Direct Democracy -- 3. Responding to Demands: Information, Abstention, and Just Saying "No -- 4. Economic Conditions and Voting on Ballot Propositions -- 5. Private Interests and Instrumental Voting -- 6. Voter Response to the Initiative Logroll and the Counterproposition -- 7. Partisan Interests and Campaign Information: Support for Term Limits -- 8. How Campaign Spending Affects Voter Awareness and Opinions of Initiatives -- 9. Conclusions about Voter Reasoning in Direct Democracy -- Appendix A: Coding of Variables on Private Interests and Voting Behavior -- References -- Index.
Summary: Referenda are becoming a more common way to resolve heated political questions. This book shows how voters make choices in referenda.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. The History of Direct Democracy: A Critique of Voter Competence -- 2. Reasoning Voters: Sorting through the Demands of Direct Democracy -- 3. Responding to Demands: Information, Abstention, and Just Saying "No -- 4. Economic Conditions and Voting on Ballot Propositions -- 5. Private Interests and Instrumental Voting -- 6. Voter Response to the Initiative Logroll and the Counterproposition -- 7. Partisan Interests and Campaign Information: Support for Term Limits -- 8. How Campaign Spending Affects Voter Awareness and Opinions of Initiatives -- 9. Conclusions about Voter Reasoning in Direct Democracy -- Appendix A: Coding of Variables on Private Interests and Voting Behavior -- References -- Index.

Referenda are becoming a more common way to resolve heated political questions. This book shows how voters make choices in referenda.

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