Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Voting Behavior in the Context of U.S. Federalism

政治学博士论文研究：美国联邦制背景下的投票行为

• 批准号: 0112370
• 负责人: John Alford
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-15 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0112370&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Science

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Support investigation examines how the federal structure of American political institutions affects the way in which individuals translate policy opinions into voting behavior. A theoretical framework pays particular attention to citizens' ability to make different attributions of responsibility for policymaking and policy performance across different levels of government in a federal system. Specific hypotheses focus on the affect such responsibility attributions have on the linkage between policy opinions and federal voting behavior. The hypothesized relationships will be analyzed by collecting original survey data on citizen attitudes about various policy areas and the level of governments they deem responsible for those policies.This dissertation has implications for understanding empirical patterns of American federal voting that heretofore have been understudied. The model produces specific predictions regarding those who would be more likely to vote for different parties at different levels of government and for those who turnout for lower offices, but not higher ones.

这项博士论文研究支持调查研究了美国政治机构的联邦结构如何影响个人将政策意见转化为投票行为的方式。理论框架特别关注公民对联邦体系中不同级别政府的政策制定和政策绩效进行不同责任归属的能力。具体假设集中于这种责任归因对政策意见与联邦投票行为之间联系的影响。将通过收集有关公民对各种政策领域的态度以及他们认为对这些政策负责的政府级别的原始调查数据来分析假设的关系。本论文对于理解迄今为止尚未得到充分研究的美国联邦投票的经验模式具有重要意义。该模型对那些更有可能投票给不同级别政府的不同政党的人以及那些投票选举较低职位但不投票较高职位的人做出了具体预测。