Voters Under Pressure: Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility

by Ruth Dassonneville

This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in electoral volatility. Ruth Dassonneville's core argument, supported by extensive empirical data, is that group-based cross-pressures lead to instability in voters' choices. She theorizes that when citizens' socio-demographic characteristics and their membership of social groups do not consistently push them to support one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192894137
• ISBN13: 9780192894137
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"