Voting Behavior in the 2016 Election

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References on Voting Behavior

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Abramowitz, Alan I. 2014. "Partisan Nation: The Rise of Affective Partisanship in the American Electorate." In The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, ed. John C. Green, Daniel J. Coffey, and David B. Cohen. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Abramson, Paul R., John H. Aldrich, Brad T. Gomez, and David W. Rhode. 2016. Change and Continuity in the 2012 and 2014 Elections. Washington: CQ Press.

Alverez, R. Michael. 1998. Information and Elections. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Bartels, Larry M. 2008. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Black, Earl, and Merle Black. 2002. The Rise of Southern Republicans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Burnham, Walter Dean. 1970. Critical Elections and the Mainspring of American Politics. New York: W.W. Norton

Campbell, Angus, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald E. Stokes. 1960. The American Voter. New York: John Wiley.

Fisher, Patrick. 2014. Demographic Gaps in American Voting Behavior. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Fiorina, Morris P. 1981. Retrospective Voting in American National Elections. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Gelman, Andrew. 2010, Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, expanded edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Green, Donald, Bradley Palmquist, and Eric Shickler. 2002. Partisan Hearts and Minds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Green, John C. 2007. The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Hansen, Susan B. 2014. The Politics of Sex: Public Opinion, Parties, and Presidential Elections. New York: Routledge.

Hillygus, D. Sunshine, and Todd G. Shields. 2008. The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Holian, David B., and Charles L. Prysby. 2015. Candidate Character Traits in Presidential Elections. New York: Routledge.

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Kimball, David C., Bryce Summary, and Eric C. Vorst. 2014. "Political Identity and Party Polarization in the American Electorate." In The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, ed. John C. Green, Daniel J. Coffey, and David B. Cohen. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Ladd, Everett Carll, Jr., and Charles D. Hadley. 1978. Transformations of the American Party System, 2nd ed. New York: Norton.

Layman, Geoffrey. 2001. The Great Divide: Religion and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

Levendusky, Matthew. 2009. The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lewis-Beck, Michael S., William G. Jacoby, Helmut Norpoth, and Herbert F. Weisberg. 2008. The American Voter Revisited. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Lublin, David. 2004. The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Merrill, Samuel III, and Bernard Grofman. 1999. A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Miller, Warren E., and J. Merrill Shanks. 1996. The New American Voter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Nie, Norman H., Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik. 1976. The Changing American Voter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Nimmo, Dan, and Robert L. Savage. 1976. Candidates and Their Images. Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear.

Page, Benjamin I. 1978. Choices and Echoes in Presidential Elections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Pew Research Center. 2017. "Partisan Identification Is 'Sticky,' but About 10% Switched Parties Over the Past Year." Pew Research Report, May 17.

Seltzer, Richard A., Jody Newman, and Melissa Voorhees Leighton. 1997. Sex as a Political Variable. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Stonecash, Jeffrey M. 2010. "Class in American Politics." In New Directions in American Political Parties, ed. Jeffrey M. Stonecash. New York: Routledge.

Sundquist, James L. 1983. The Dynamics of the Party System, rev. ed. Washington: The Brookings Institution.