Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States
Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States
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做出政治选择：加拿大和美国
DOI：
10.3138/9781442603424
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
T. Scotto
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作者：
H. Clarke;A. Kornberg;T. Scotto
最近在加拿大和美国举行的全国选举是令人兴奋的，重要的竞争。在2004年加拿大联邦选举中，自由党在与新保守党的激烈斗争中险胜。2006年，保守党赢得了一场脆弱的胜利，取代了丑闻缠身的自由党政府。在2000年美国总统大选中，共和党人乔治.布什成为100多年来第一位没有获得多数选票就当选总统的候选人。四年后，布什终于获得了一个狭窄的民众授权，但只是在经过艰苦的竞选。2006年，随着公众舆论大规模转向反对总统，共和党的政治命运发生了惊人的逆转，失去了对国会两院的控制。在《做出政治选择：加拿大和美国》一书中，哈罗德·克拉克、艾伦·科恩伯格和托马斯·斯科特使用了大量新的调查数据来描述这些选举，并评估了关于政党支持率和选民投票率的相互竞争的理论。在研究各种论点的同时，作者认为，效价政治模型为加拿大、美国和其他成熟民主国家的投票行为提供了强有力的解释。
Recent national elections in Canada and the United States have been exciting, consequential contests. In the 2004 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party narrowly clung to power after a volatile and bitter battle with the new Conservative Party. In 2006, the Conservative Party won a fragile victory, replacing the scandal-ridden Liberal government. In the 2000 American presidential election, Republican George W. Bush became the first candidate in over 100 years to capture the presidency without a majority popular vote. Four years later, Bush finally attained a narrow popular mandate but only after a hard fought campaign. Then, in 2006, the Republicans suffered a stunning reversal of political fortune, losing control of both Houses of Congress, as public opinion turned massively against the president.In Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States, Harold Clarke, Allan Kornberg, and Thomas Scotto employ a wealth of new survey data to describe these elections and evaluate competing theories of party support and voter turnout. While examining various arguments, the authors contend that a valence politics model provides a powerful explanation of voting behavior in Canada, the United States, and other mature democracies.