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Vote functions and popularity functions in British politics [An article from: Electoral Studies]
enlarge	Author: D. Sanders Publisher: Elsevier Category: Book Buy New: $5.95 as of 9/9/2010 07:54 MDT details Seller: Amazon.com Format: HTML Media: Digital ASIN: B000RQY940 Publication Date: June 1, 2004 Availability: Available for download now



Editorial Reviews: Product Description This digital document is a journal article from Electoral Studies, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Vote functions are important devices for providing a 'big picture' of developments in electoral politics. However, the limited degrees of freedom upon which they are typically based mean that vote functions are rarely able to properly discriminate between competing accounts of electoral outcomes. They also fail adequately to capture the impact of 'events' or to recognise the extent to which the context of electoral competition can vary over time. Popularity functions that restrict themselves to relatively limited periods of time are capable of addressing all of these concerns: they enjoy more degrees of freedom, can take full account of the impact of 'events', and can focus on very specific electoral periods. Interestingly, however, Lewis-Beck's vote function for post-war British politics contains variables that are very similar to those in a popularity function that was developed for the most recent (2001) British general election. In the British context, vote and popularity functions seem to provide quite similar accounts of the main drivers of party support. The advantage of both approaches is that they provide clearly specified, unambiguous-and falsifiable-accounts of the phenomenon under investigation.

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