TY - BOOK ID - 77846008 TI - Voters on the move or on the run? AU - Weßels, Bernhard AU - Rattinger, Hans AU - Roßteutscher, Sigrid AU - Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger PY - 2014 SN - 9780199662630 0199662630 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political participation. KW - Elections. KW - #SBIB:303H13 KW - #SBIB:324H42 KW - #SBIB:32H3 KW - Electoral politics KW - Franchise KW - Polls KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical KW - Plebiscite KW - Political campaigns KW - Representative government and representation KW - Citizen participation KW - Community action KW - Community involvement KW - Community participation KW - Involvement, Community KW - Mass political behavior KW - Participation, Citizen KW - Participation, Community KW - Participation, Political KW - Political activity KW - Political behavior KW - Political rights KW - Social participation KW - Political activists KW - Methoden en technieken: politieke wetenschappen KW - Politieke structuren: verkiezingen KW - Politieke wetenschappen: inleidende werken, handboeken, methoden KW - Political sociology KW - Political participation KW - Elections UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77846008 AB - "Voters on the Move or on the Run? addresses electoral change, the reasons, and the consequences. By investigating heterogeneity of voting, and complexity of voting and its context the volume shows that increasing heterogeneity is not arbitrary and unstructured. Heterogeneity of voting rather is a way of voters dealing with the increasing complexity of the context of elections - diversified social structures, increasing differentiation of political supply, increasing complexity of the information environment. By analysing the conditions of heterogeneity and showing that the calculus of voting becomes more and more conditional in terms of what voters regard as relevant criteria for vote choice, the book demonstrates that the new feature of electoral behaviour is structured heterogeneity. The dimensions of differentiation of the electorate are cognitive capacity and the structure of individual information acquisition systems. The book demonstrates that voters are on the move looking for appropriate answers to new complexities rather than on the run. The book uses data predominantly from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), and also comparative data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Cross-sectional analysis is complemented by long- and short-term dynamic analyses with panel data, and comparative analyses"--Publisher's website. ER -