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Voting the Agenda: Candidates, Elections, and Ballot Propositions
Ort / Verlag
United States: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
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.