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Directional Voting

Directional Voting is a theoretical model of electoral behavior in which voters make choices based on the ideological direction of party policy shifts rather than absolute policy proximity, thereby rewarding parties that move cohesively toward the voter’s preferred ideological pole.

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4.3K

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56

Authors

43

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Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Directional Theory Of Voting

Parents

Publications

40

A Directional Theory of Issue Voting

George Rabinowitz, Stuart Elaine Macdonald · American Political Science Review · 1989 · 1.3K citations

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When Moderate Voters Prefer Extreme Parties: Policy Balancingin Parliamentary Elections

Orit Kedar · American Political Science Review · 2005 · 390 citations

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Issues and Party Support in Multiparty Systems

Stuart Elaine Macdonald, Ola Listhaug, George Rabinowitz · American Political Science Review · 1991 · 272 citations

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Political Leadership and Representation in West European Democracies: A Test of Three Models of Voting

Torben Iversen · American Journal of Political Science · 1994 · 228 citations

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Candidate Positioning and Voter Choice

Michael Tomz, Robert P. Van Houweling · American Political Science Review · 2008 · 198 citations

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Authors

56

  1. SE
    Stuart Elaine Macdonald

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    7 publications · 2K citations

    7

    h-index

  2. GR
    George Rabinowitz

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    7 publications · 2K citations

    7

    h-index

  3. OL
    Ola Listhaug

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    4 publications · 626 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. JA
    James Adams

    University of California, Davis, United States

    3 publications · 192 citations

    3

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  5. SM
    Samuel Merrill

    Wilkes University, United States

    3 publications · 102 citations

    3

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Institutions

43

  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    3.5K citations

  2. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    115 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    354 citations

  4. Baruch College

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  5. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    159 citations

  6. Texas Tech University

    Lubbock, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  7. Statistics Finland

    Helsinki, Finland

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    141 citations

  8. University of Bamberg

    Bamberg, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Theoretical Politics

    JTP · 5 publications · 141 citations

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  2. European Journal of Political Research

    4 publications · 156 citations

    4

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  3. American Political Science Review

    4 publications · 2.2K citations

    4

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  4. British Journal of Political Science

    3 publications · 293 citations

    3

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  5. The Journal of Politics

    JP · 3 publications · 181 citations

    3

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