Guide to Journal Articles
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Thad A. Brown, 'On Contextual Change and Partisan Attributes', British Journal of Political
Science, 11: 4, October 1981, pp. 427-447. An analysis of the impact on party identification and voting in the USA by changes in individuals' political environment that follow as the result of geographical mobility. R. K. Carty, 'Brokerage and Partisanship: Politicians, Parties and Elections in Ireland', Canadian Journal ofPoliticalScience, XIV: 1, March 1981, pp. 53-81. The concepts of brokerage and partisanship are used to disentangle the dynamics of Irish party competition; the article also discusses the limitations of sociologically rooted models of politics. Thomas E. Cavanagh, 'Changes in American Voter Turnout, 1964-1976', Political Science
Quarter~, 96: 1, Spring 1981, pp. 53-65. The shifting demography of voter participation and the size of the electoral universe has a significant impact on the policy process. This article disaggregates the national trend of declining voter participation into its component parts. Jean Charlot, 'Le double enchainement de la dfifaite et de la victoire', Revue politique et
parlementaire, May June 1981, 83, No. 892, pp. 15 28. An analysis of the 1981 presidential election. See also articles by Le Gall and Pfister in the same issue. Melissa P. Collie, 'Incumbency, Electoral Safety and Turnover in the House of Representatives, 1952 76', American PoliticalScienceReview, 75: 1, March 1981, pp. 119-31. This article examines the hypothesis that an increase in electoral value attached to incumbency accounts for the rise in incumbents' victory margins observed since the mid-sixties. The article casts doubt on the theory that the decline in electoral turnover is due to the percentage increase in victory margins. Patrick Dunleavy and Hugh Ward, 'Exogenous Voter Preferences and Parties with State Power: Some Internal Problems of Economic Theories of Party Competition', British Journal of Political Science, 11 : 3, July 1981, pp. 351-380. This paper discusses the theories of electoral or party competition in liberal democracies which have been put forward in economic models of democracy by Downs, Riker, Ordeshook and Robertson. James Enelow and Melvin J. Hinich, 'A New Approach to Voter Uncertainty in the Downsian Spatial Model', American Journal of Political Science, 25: 3, August 1981, pp. 483 493. A discussion of two types of voter shift on the underlying dimension--one in which voter ideal points are shifted towards the extremes and the other in which they are shifted towards the centre. Robert S. Erikson, 'Measuring Constituency Opinion: The 1978 US Congressional Election Survey', Legislative StudiesQ,uarterly, 6: 2, May 1981, pp. 235-245. Data from the 1978 survey were analysed and the results show that roll-call behaviour is quite responsive to constituency opinion. Jurgen w. Falter, 'Kontinuit~it und Neubeginn. Die Bundestagwahl 1949 zwischen Weimar und Bonn', Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 22: 3, 1981, pp. 236 263. A study of the 1949 Bundestag election in the context of a historical perspective.