目录: List of Figure, Tables, and Boxes xi Preface xiii Part I THE STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT 1 1 VOTERS 3 Why People Don’t Vote 3 Why People Do Vote: A Theory of Social Connectedness 8 Party Identification as Social Identity 10 Parties as Aggregates of Loyal Voters 11 Ideologies, Candidates, and Issues in the Minds of Voters 15 Changes in Party Identification: Social Habit versus Contemporary Evaluation 18 A Central Strategic Problem: The Attentiveness of Voters 22 2 GROUPS 25 The Presidential Vote as an Aggregation of Interest Groups 25 Variations among Interest Groups 33 “Special” Interests and Public Interest Groups 37 Political Parties as Organizations 42 Third Parties 47 3 RULES AND RESOURCES 51 Rules: The Electoral College 51 Thinking about Resources 52
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