SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour
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Biographical note
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.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
- Professor Pippa Norris,
<p>Elections are the core institution of liberal democracy, and the empirical study of voters′ choices has therefore served as a theoretical and methodological pacemaker of modern political science. While the central ideas sketched by the field′s pioneer studies have proven remarkably fruitful over the years, its theoretical and methodological ingenuity has created a literature of such complexity that a comprehensive handbook like this one is long overdue. Its three editors are outstanding specialists. They have done a remarkable job in assembling a volume that covers all theoretical and methodological approaches utilized to understand electoral behaviour in democracies all over the world. It will be most useful to anyone interested in how modern voters′ choose – and how political scientists nowadays conceive of the vitally important, but by no means ′simple′, act of voting.</p>
- Ruediger Schmitt-Beck,
<p>Voting is a simple act while understanding and explaining is rather complex. The Sage Handbook of Electoral Behaviour leads the reader – both the experienced scholar and practitioner as well as the student – through the many routes that research has explored overtime. Traditional topics as well as novel ones find in this text a thoroughly discussion that enable us to understand the transformation of the many factors that contribute to voting choice in contemporary politics. A rewarding read for all those interested in elections and voting.</p>
- Paolo Bellucci,
This volume is an excellent overview of the whole field of research into Electoral Behaviour and will be an invaluable source for students of electoral choice going forward
- Paul Whiteley,