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

这个博士论文研究支持调查研究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。一个理论框架特别关注公民在联邦制度中对各级政府的决策和政策绩效承担不同责任的能力。具体的假设集中在这种责任归因对政策意见和联邦投票行为之间的联系的影响。假设的关系将通过收集原始调查数据的公民对各种政策领域的态度和政府的水平，他们认为负责这些polices.This论文的理解美国联邦投票的经验模式，迄今为止一直未充分研究的影响。该模型对那些更有可能在不同级别的政府中投票给不同政党的人以及那些投票率较低而不是较高的人进行了具体的预测。

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.