Now back in print, this reader brings together the best work in the study of American voting behavior. It's contents, from the 1950s-mid 1980s, include election turnout, political sophistication, vote determinants, congressional and state elections, party identification, and historical perspectives.

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Preface
Introduction

1. The Classics of Voting Behavior

I. Election Turnout

2. Is It Rational to Vote?


3. The Rationality to Political Activity: A Reconsideration, Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie

II. Ideology

4. Do Voters Think Ideologically?


5. The Stability of Belief Elements Over Time, Philip E. Converse


6. Mass Belief Systems Revisited: Political Change and Attitude Structure, Norman H.Nie with Kristi Andersen


7. Ideological Constraint in the Mass Public: A Methodological Critique and Some New Findings, John L. Sullivan, James E. Piereson, and George E. Marcus


8. Plus Ça Change...The New CPS Election Study Panel, Philip E. Converse and Gregory B. Markus

III. Voter Determinants

9. What Determines the Vote?


10. The Assessment of Policy Voting, Richard A. Brody and Benjamin I. Page


11. Policy Voting and the Electoral Process: The Vietnam War Issue, Benjamin I. Page and Richard A. Brody


12. The Two Faces of Issue Voting, Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson


13. Reciprocal Effects of Policy Preferences, Party Loyalties, and the Vote, Benjamin I. Page and Calvin C. Jones


14. A Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Model of Electoral Choice, Gregory B.Markus and Philip E. Converse

IV. Congressional Elections

15. What Determines the Congressional Vote?


16. Party Government and the Saliency of Congress, Donald E. Stokes and Warren E. Miller


17. Constituency Influence in Congress, Warren E. Miller and Donald E. Stokes


18. Congressional Elections: The Case of the Vanishing Marginals, David R. Mayhew


19. Economic and Political Determinants of Electoral Outcomes: Midterm Congressional Elections, Edward R. Tufte


20. Candidates and Parties in Congressional Elections, Thomas E. Mann and Raymond E. Wolfinger

V. Party Identification

21. How Meaningful is Party Identification?


22. The Impact and Development of Party Identification, Angus Campbell, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald E. Stokes


23. The Decline of Partisanship, Norman H. Nie, Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik


24. Explorations of a Political Theory of Party Identification, Morris P. Fiorina


25. Party Identification as a Cross-National Concept: Its Meaning in the Netherlands, Jacques Thomassen


26. An Analysis of Intransitivities in the Index of Party Identification, John R. Petrocik


27. A Multidimensional Conceptualization of Party Identification, Herbert F. Weisberg

VI. Historical Perspectives

28. Historical Changes in Voting Behavior


29. The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe, Walter Dean Burnham


30. The Effect of the Australian Ballot Reform on Split Ticket Voting: 1876-1908, Jerrold G. Rusk


31. A Socialization Theory of Partisan Realignment, Paul Allen Beck

References
Name Index
Subject Index