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 Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. In spring, 2014, he was Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Göteborg, 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-BeckINSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES02 Institutional effects on voter choice - Shaun Bowler03 Party systems and voter alignments - Asa von Schoultz04 Voter behaviour in 2nd order elections - Herman Schmitt and Eftikia Teperoglou05 Clarity of responsibility - Thiago Silva and Guy Whitten06 Voting in new democracies - Lenka Bustikova and Elizabeth ZechmeisterSOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES07 Age(ing) - Ruth Dassonneville08 Gender - Rosie Campbell09 Class - Geoff Evans10 Religion - Martin Elff and Sigrid Rossteutscher11 Ethnicity - Maria Sobolewska12 Social networks and voter mobilisation - Marc HooghePARTISANSHIP13 Evolving role of partisanship - Elias Dinas14 Party identification: a reassessment - Don Green and Susanne Baltes15 Cognitive mobilisation - Todd DonovanVOTER DECISION-MAKING16 Strategic voting - Thomas Gschwend and Michael Meffert17 Genetics - Carisa Bergner and Pete Hatemi18 Affect - David Redlawsk and Douglas Pierce19 Referenda - Alan Renwick20 Turnout - Hanna Wass and André BlaisISSUES AND ATTITUDES21 Ideology and core values - Robert Lupton, Adam Enders and William Jacoby22 Issue ownership - Wouter van der Brug23 Valence and competence - Jane Green and Will Jennings24 Value cleavages - Romain Lachat25 Evaluating the economy - Marina Costa Lobo and Mike Lewis-Beck26 VP-function: a review - Mary Stegmaier, Beomseob Park and Mike Lewis-BeckCANDIDATES AND CAMPAIGNS27 Voter evaluations of candidates - Diego Garzia28 Geolocation - Jocelyn Evans29 Personal vote - Thomas Zittel 30 Candidate attractiveness - Markus Klein and Ulrich Rosar31 Campaign effects - Richard Johnston32 Media and campaigns - Diane Mutz and Eunji Kim33 Campaign spending - Zachary Albert and Ray La RajaPOLLING AND FORECASTING34 Opinion polling and vote - Rob Ford, Chris Wlezien, Mark Pickup and Will Jennings35 Econometric approaches to forecasting - Eric Bélanger and David Trotter36 Wisdom of crowds - Andreas Murr37 Political markets - Andreas Graefe38 Social media and elections - Luigi Curini, Stefano Iacus and Andrea CeronMETHODS39 Survey experiments - Rob Johns40 Multi-level modelling - Marcel Lubbers and Take Sipma41 Cross-national data sources - Catherine de Vries42 Psephology and technology - Kai Arzheimer43 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