Social Structure and Voting in the United States
This book analyzes practical and moral influences on voting decisions. Undermining the widespread assumption that economic self-interest is the key determinant of voting choices, it discovers that moral considerations rooted in religious traditions are often the more decisive. This finding is confir...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Voters for Obama
- Variables of Practical Voting
- Models of Practical Voting
- Post-Industrial Indicators, Human Development, and Red-Purple-Blue States
- Gauging Income Inequality
- Validity of a Typology of States
- Consequences of Four Types of States
- Gauging Moral Conservatism
- Determinants of Social Conservatism
- Determinants of a State's Political Color
- Moral Conservatism and Voting
- Moral Conservatism, Distractors, and Authoritarianism
- Evidence-Based Insights