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'Voters and Voting in Context' investigates the role of context in affecting political opinion formation and voting behaviour. Building on a model of contextual effects on individual-level voter behaviour, the chapters of this volume explore contextual effects in Germany in the early twenty-first century. The volume draws upon manifold combinations of individual and contextual information gathered in the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) framework and employ advanced methods.

Voting --- Voting research --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Voting behavior research --- Elections --- Polls --- Politics, Practical --- Social choice --- Suffrage --- Research --- Balloting

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Negative campaigning is a central component of political campaigns in the United States. Yet, until now, most evidence has suggested that negative campaigning has little effect on voters. How can we reconcile the findings of a plethora of empirical studies with the methods of political elites? This book cuts through to the central issue: how such advertising influences voters' attitudes and their actions during campaigns. Focusing on U.S. senatorial campaigns, Kim Fridkin and Patrick Kenney draw from surveys, experiments, facial expression emotion tests, content analyses and focus groups.

Political campaigns --- Advertising, Political --- Voting research --- United States. --- Elections. --- Voting --- Voting behavior research --- Elections --- Research --- Mei-kuo tsʻan i yüan

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This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Accion, on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification the analysis uses discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths. It finds that Familias en Accion had a positive effect on political participation in the 2010 presidential elections by increasing the probability that program beneficiaries registered to vote and cast a ballot, particularly among women. Regarding voter's choice, the authors find that program participants expressed a stronger preference for the official party that implemented and expanded the program. Overall, the findings show that voters respond to targeted transfers and that these transfers can foster support for incumbents, thus making the case for designing political and legislative mechanisms, as the laws recently passed by the Colombian government, that avoid successful anti-poverty schemes from being captured by political patronage.

Conditional Cash Transfers --- E-Government --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Parliamentary Government --- Political Systems and Analysis --- Politics and Government --- Population Policies --- Poverty Reduction --- Voting behavior --- Colombia