 American elections suggests the existence of a category of elections in which voters are, at least from impressionistic evidence, unusually deeply concerned, in which the extent of electoral involvement is relatively quite high, and in which the decisive...  A Plague on Both Your Houses: Minor Parties in Australia - Page 205by Dean Jaensch, David Scott Mathieson - 1998 - 248 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Gerald M. Pomper - Political Science - 436 pages
...stimulated such study in "A Theory of Critical Elections." Key pointed to "a category of elections ... in which the decisive results of the voting reveal a sharp alteration of pre,existing cleavages within the electorate. Moreover, and perhaps this is the truly differentiating... | |
 | Byron E. Shafer - History - 1991 - 206 pages
...elections " — not a mature theory of partisan change.2 Key discerns "a category of elections in which voters are ... unusually deeply concerned, in which...of the preexisting cleavage within the electorate. Moreover, and perhaps this is a truly differentiating characteristic of this sort of election, the... | |
 | John L. Pollock - Computers - 1995 - 744 pages
...definition of a "critical election" bears repeating here. He saw it as one in which the electorate is: ...unusually deeply concerned, in which the extent...of the pre-existing cleavage within the electorate. Moreover, and perhaps this is the truly differentiating characteristic of this sort of election, the... | |
 | Mark E. Rush - Political Science - 2000 - 194 pages
...the existence of a category of elections in which voters are, at least from impressionistic evidence, unusually deeply concerned, in which the extent of...of the pre-existing cleavage within the electorate. Moreover, and perhaps this is the truly differentiating characteristic of this sort of election, the... | |
 | Oren M. Levin-Waldman - Political Science - 2001 - 260 pages
...precipitated by some crisis. For the shift to be sharp, voter participation would have to be relatively high "in which the decisive results of the voting reveal...the pre-existing cleavage within the electorate." 22 For the shift to be durable, the new electoral composition would have to persist over time. And... | |
 | David R. Mayhew - Political Science - 2002 - 194 pages
...are not. The former are defined as ones "in which voters are, at least from impressionistic evidence, unusually deeply concerned, in which the extent of...the pre-existing cleavage within the electorate." Additionally, as "perhaps . . . the truly differentiating characteristic of this sort of election,... | |
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