The study of voting behavior remains a vibrant sub-discipline of political science. The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an authoritative and wide ranging survey of this dynamic field, drawing together a team of the world′s leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art review that sets the agenda for future study.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on a range of countries, the handbook is composed of eight parts. The first five cover the principal theoretical paradigms, establishing the state of the art in their conceptualization and application, and followed by chapters on their specific challenges and innovative applications in contemporary voting studies. The remaining three parts explore elements of the voting process to understand their different effects on vote outcomes.
The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an essential benchmark publication for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of politics, sociology, psychology, and research methods.
Kai Arzheimer is Professor of Politics at the University of Mainz. His interests are political attitudes, research methods, and voting behaviour, particularly in Germany and other West European countries, and parties of the Radical Right. Professor Arzheimer has written over 50 articles, chapters, and books on these topics and is the co-editor, with Jocelyn Evans, of Electoral Behaviour (Sage, 2008) in the Library of Political Science series.
Jocelyn Evans is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. His interests are voting behaviour, particularly in France and other European countries, and parties of the Radical Right. Professor Evans is the author of Voters and Voting: an Introduction (Sage, 2004) and co-editor, with Kai Arzheimer, of Electoral Behaviour (Sage, 2008) in the Library of Political Science series. He has written over 50 articles and books on various aspects of electoral behaviour. He served as editor of Parliamentary Affairs between 2005 and 2011. He has held visiting research positions at the ZA-Eurolab in Cologne, Germany, and the CIDSP, Grenoble, France.
Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. His interests are comparative elections, election forecasting, political economy, and quantitative methodology. Professor Lewis-Beck has authored or co-authored over 260 articles and books, including Economics and Elections, The American Voter Revisited, French Presidential Elections, Forecasting Elections, The Austrian Voter, and Applied Regression. He has served as Editor of the American Journal of Political Science and of the Sage QASS series (the green monographs) in quantitative methods. Currently he is Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting and of French Politics. In addition to his position at Iowa, he has held various positions abroad including, more recently, Paul Lazersfeld University Professor at the University of Vienna; Visiting Professor at Center for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium; Visiting Professor at LUISS University, Rome; Visiting Senior Scholar, Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. michael-lewis-beck@uiowa.edu
