TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicholson,Stephen P.
TI  - Voting the Agenda: Candidates, Elections, and Ballot Propositions 
SN  - 9780691223841
AV  - JK1976 
U1  - 324.973 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Direct democracy
KW  - United States
KW  - Elections
KW  - Political psychology
KW  - Voting
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Atkeson, Lonna Rae
KW  - Barber, Benjamin
KW  - Beilenson, Anthony
KW  - Bradley, Tom
KW  - Campbell, Angus
KW  - Congressional Quarterly
KW  - Donovan, Todd
KW  - Feinstein, Diane
KW  - Florida, elections in
KW  - Gronke, Paul
KW  - Independents
KW  - Indian gaming
KW  - Los Angeles Times
KW  - Matsui, Robert
KW  - Proxmire, William
KW  - Rohrabacher, Dana
KW  - Verba, Sidney
KW  - Willens, Harold
KW  - Wright, Gerald C
KW  - Zaller, John
KW  - abortion issues
KW  - affirmative action issues
KW  - civil liberties issues
KW  - coattail voting
KW  - crime issues
KW  - death penalty
KW  - economic issues
KW  - education issues
KW  - gun control issues
KW  - healthcare reform issues
KW  - heresthetics
KW  - horse meat consumption
KW  - ideology
KW  - illegal immigrant issues
KW  - incumbency
KW  - information environments
KW  - initiatives
KW  - institutional responsibilities
KW  - interest groups
KW  - midterm elections
KW  - morality issues
KW  - nativism
KW  - on-line evaluation models
KW  - physician-assisted suicide
KW  - referenda
KW  - same-sex marriages
KW  - social choice theory
KW  - state legislative elections
KW  - statewide issues
KW  - ticket-splitting
KW  - toxics issues
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; LIST OF TABLES --; PREFACE --; CHAPTER 1 Kindred Votes: An Introduction --; CHAPTER 2 A Theory of Agenda Voting --; CHAPTER 3 Studying Agendas and Direct Legislation in U.S. Elections --; CHAPTER 4 Ballot Measures and Congressional Election Agendas --; CHAPTER 5 Priming the Freeze: Nuclear Freeze Ballot Measures as a Common Basis of Candidate Voting in State and Federal Elections --; CHAPTER 6 Taking the Initiative: Illegal Immigrants, Affirmative Action, and Strategic Politicians in California’s 1994 and 1996 Elections --; CHAPTER 7 Direct Democracy: The People’s Agenda? --; NOTES --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - How do voters make decisions in low-information elections? How distinctive are these voting decisions? Traditional approaches to the study of voting and elections often fail to address these questions by ignoring other elections taking place simultaneously. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Nicholson shows how issue agendas shaped by state ballot propositions prime voting decisions for presidential, gubernatorial, Senate, House, and state legislative races. As a readily accessible source of information, the issues raised by ballot propositions may have a spillover effect on elections and ultimately define the meaning of myriad contests. Nicholson examines issues that appear on the ballot alongside candidates in the form of direct legislation. Found in all fifty states, but most abundant in those states that feature citizen-initiated ballot propositions, direct legislation represents a large and growing source of agenda issues. Looking at direct legislation issues such as abortion, taxes, environmental regulation, the nuclear freeze, illegal immigration, and affirmative action, Nicholson finds that these topics shaped voters' choices of candidates even if the issues were not featured in a particular contest or were not relevant to the job responsibilities of a particular office. He concludes that the agendas established by ballot propositions have a far greater effect in priming voters than is commonly recognized, and indeed, that the strategic use of initiatives and referenda by political elites potentially thwarts the will of the people
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223841?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691223841
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691223841/original
ER  -