Nested voters: citizen choices embedded in political contexts
Anderson, C. J.
& Dalton, R. J.
(2010).
Nested voters: citizen choices embedded in political contexts.
In
Dalton, R. J. & Anderson, C. J.
(Eds.),
Citizens, Context, and Choice: How Context Shapes Citizens' Electoral Choices
(pp. 241 - 256).
Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599233.003.0011
& Dalton, R. J.
(2010).
Nested voters: citizen choices embedded in political contexts.
In
Dalton, R. J. & Anderson, C. J.
(Eds.),
Citizens, Context, and Choice: How Context Shapes Citizens' Electoral Choices
(pp. 241 - 256).
Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599233.003.0011
This chapter reviews the findings of this book and discusses their implications for the study of voter behavior. It argues that the effect of political institutions on voter behavior is typically indirect and contingent and that the most promixate contextual influences are typically different dimensions of the electoral supply in the form of party system polarization and fragmentation.