The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour

Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His interests are comparative elections, election forecasting, political economy, and quantitative methodology. He has been designated the 4th most cited political scientist since 1940, in the field of methodology. Professor Lewis-Beck has authored or co-authored over 240 articles and books, including Applied Regression: An Introduction, Data Analysis: An Introduction, Economics and Elections: The Major Western Democracies, Forecasting Elections, The American Voter Revisited and French Presidential Elections. He has served as an Editor of the American Journal of Political Science, the Sage QASS series (the green monographs) in quantitative methods and The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Currently he is Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting and Associate Editor of French Politics. In spring 2012, he held the position of Paul Lazersfeld University Professor at the University of Vienna. During the fall of 2012, he was Visiting Professor at Center for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. In spring 2013, Professor Lewis-Beck was Visiting Scholar, Centennial Center, American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. During fall 2013, he served as Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. In spring, 2014, he was Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Goeteborg, Sweden. For fall, 2014, he served as a Visiting Professor at LUISS University, Rome. At present, he is co-authoring a book on how Latin Americans vote.

01 Introduction - Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans & Michael S. Lewis-Beck INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES 02 Institutional effects on voter choice - Shaun Bowler 03 Party systems and voter alignments - Asa von Schoultz 04 Voter behaviour in 2nd order elections - Herman Schmitt and Eftikia Teperoglou 05 Clarity of responsibility - Thiago Silva and Guy Whitten 06 Voting in new democracies - Lenka Bustikova and Elizabeth Zechmeister SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES 07 Age(ing) - Ruth Dassonneville 08 Gender - Rosie Campbell 09 Class - Geoff Evans 10 Religion - Martin Elff and Sigrid Rossteutscher 11 Ethnicity - Maria Sobolewska 12 Social networks and voter mobilisation - Marc Hooghe PARTISANSHIP 13 Evolving role of partisanship - Elias Dinas 14 Party identification: a reassessment - Don Green and Susanne Baltes 15 Cognitive mobilisation - Todd Donovan VOTER DECISION-MAKING 16 Strategic voting - Thomas Gschwend and Michael Meffert 17 Genetics - Carisa Bergner and Pete Hatemi 18 Affect - David Redlawsk and Douglas Pierce 19 Referenda - Alan Renwick 20 Turnout - Hanna Wass and Andre Blais ISSUES AND ATTITUDES 21 Ideology and core values - Robert Lupton, Adam Enders and William Jacoby 22 Issue ownership - Wouter van der Brug 23 Valence and competence - Jane Green and Will Jennings 24 Value cleavages - Romain Lachat 25 Evaluating the economy - Marina Costa Lobo and Mike Lewis-Beck 26 VP-function: a review - Mary Stegmaier, Beomseob Park and Mike Lewis-Beck CANDIDATES AND CAMPAIGNS 27 Voter evaluations of candidates - Diego Garzia 28 Geolocation - Jocelyn Evans 29 Personal vote - Thomas Zittel 30 Candidate attractiveness - Markus Klein and Ulrich Rosar 31 Campaign effects - Richard Johnston 32 Media and campaigns - Diane Mutz and Eunji Kim 33 Campaign spending - Zachary Albert and Ray La Raja POLLING AND FORECASTING 34 Opinion polling and vote - Rob Ford, Chris Wlezien, Mark Pickup and Will Jennings 35 Econometric approaches to forecasting - Eric Belanger and David Trotter 36 Wisdom of crowds - Andreas Murr 37 Political markets - Andreas Graefe 38 Social media and elections - Luigi Curini, Stefano Iacus and Andrea Ceron METHODS 39 Survey experiments - Rob Johns 40 Multi-level modelling - Marcel Lubbers and Take Sipma 41 Cross-national data sources - Catherine de Vries 42 Psephology and technology - Kai Arzheimer 43 Conclusion - Marianne Stewart

An excellent volume covering all the major classical topics in political and electoral behavior, with a first-class line up of leading international scholars, this Handbook will prove invaluable for colleagues and students seeking a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the sub-field -- Professor Pippa Norris Elections are the core institution of liberal democracy, and the empirical study of voters' choices has therefore served as a theoretical and methodological pacemaker of modern political science. While the central ideas sketched by the field's pioneer studies have proven remarkably fruitful over the years, its theoretical and methodological ingenuity has created a literature of such complexity that a comprehensive handbook like this one is long overdue. Its three editors are outstanding specialists. They have done a remarkable job in assembling a volume that covers all theoretical and methodological approaches utilized to understand electoral behaviour in democracies all over the world. It will be most useful to anyone interested in how modern voters' choose - and how political scientists nowadays conceive of the vitally important, but by no means 'simple', act of voting. -- Ruediger Schmitt-Beck