Information and Elections

by R. Michael Alvarez

Book Overview

R. Michael Alvarez examines how voters make their decisions in presidential elections. He begins with the assumption that voters have neither the incentive nor the inclination to be well-informed about politics and presidential candidates. Candidates themselves have incentives to provide ambiguous information about themselves, their records and their issue positions. Yet the author shows that a tremendous amount of information is made available about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472107798
• ISBN13: 9780472107797
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 257 Pages