國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

Sheep or shepherds? Voter behavior ...

Duke University.

Sheep or shepherds? Voter behavior in new democratic contexts (Mexico).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sheep or shepherds? Voter behavior in new democratic contexts (Mexico).
Author:	Zechmeister, Elizabeth Jean.
Description:	320 p.
Notes:	Chair: John Aldrich.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2350.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135149
ISBN:	0496823736

Sheep or shepherds? Voter behavior in new democratic contexts (Mexico).
Zechmeister, Elizabeth Jean.

Sheep or shepherds? Voter behavior in new democratic contexts (Mexico). - 320 p.

Chair: John Aldrich.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2003.

In the second part, I argue that cognitive and contextual conditions indirectly affect voting behavior by shaping these three factors. Specifically, sophistication and experience with local rule by opposition candidates affect the substantive bases of candidate trait appraisals. Perceptions of candidates' policy stances and performance capabilities are shaped by sophistication and interest, but also by elite behavior and circumstances (party competition, experience in office, and campaign rhetoric). Finally, stability and consistency in the political environment, in addition to individual-level factors, facilitate the application of policy content to ideological labels; party rhetoric also has an important influence on the meaning assigned to left-right constructs by party electorates.

ISBN: 0496823736Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Sheep or shepherds? Voter behavior in new democratic contexts (Mexico).
LDR:03297nmm _2200277 _450 001 162732
005 20051017073517.5
008 090528s2003 eng d
020 $a 0496823736
035 $a 00149233
040 $a UnM $c UnM
100 0 $a Zechmeister, Elizabeth Jean. $3 227876
245 1 0 $a Sheep or shepherds? Voter behavior in new democratic contexts (Mexico).
300 $a 320 p.
500 $a Chair: John Aldrich.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2350.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2003.
520 # $a In the second part, I argue that cognitive and contextual conditions indirectly affect voting behavior by shaping these three factors. Specifically, sophistication and experience with local rule by opposition candidates affect the substantive bases of candidate trait appraisals. Perceptions of candidates' policy stances and performance capabilities are shaped by sophistication and interest, but also by elite behavior and circumstances (party competition, experience in office, and campaign rhetoric). Finally, stability and consistency in the political environment, in addition to individual-level factors, facilitate the application of policy content to ideological labels; party rhetoric also has an important influence on the meaning assigned to left-right constructs by party electorates.
520 # $a The main argument has two parts. In the first part, I identify three factors that affect the total weight substantive factors carry in the vote choice. First, candidate trait appraisals are, at least in part, formed on the basis of policy stances and performance evaluations. Second, the extent of perceived candidate choice is positively related to the tendency to vote on the basis of both policy and performance issues. Third, meaningful left-right semantics aid policy-based voting in new democratic settings.
520 # $a This dissertation project explores to what extent and under what conditions voters in new democratic contexts make decisions on the basis of substantive factors. The key argument and finding is that propensities to vote on the basis of policy stances and performance evaluations are determined by individual characteristics and by the volume and clarity of information within the political environment, through their effects on three factors: candidate trait appraisals, perceptions of choice, and ideological heuristics. Using Mexico and its sub-national contexts as the primary case study, the dissertation combines a number of data generation and analysis techniques, including field work, a Q-sort study, the writing and purchase of novel survey questions, maximum likelihood estimation, OLS regression, and factor analyses. The project provides important insights into the development of voting behavior in the case of Mexico, but its principal findings more generally build upon and expand current understandings of voting behavior.
590 $a School code: 0066.
650 # 0 $a Political Science, General. $3 212408
690 $a 0615
710 0 # $a Duke University. $3 226880
773 0 # $g 65-06A. $t Dissertation Abstracts International
790 $a 0066
790 1 0 $a Aldrich, John, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2003
856 4 0 $u http://libsw.nuk.edu.tw:81/login?url=http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135149 $z http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135149