Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Voter behaviour
Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet (1968 [1948]). The people’s choice: how the
votermakesuphismindinapresidentialcampaign, 3rd edn. New York; London: Columbia
University Press.
Levendusky, Matthew S. (2010). Clearer cues, more consistent voters: a benefit of elite polarization.
Political Behavior 32(1): 111–31. DOI: 10.1007/s11109-009-9094-0
Lippmann, Walter (1927). The phantom public. London: The Macmillan Company.
—— (1922). Public opinion. London: Allen & Unwin.
Lupia, Arthur (2016). Uninformed: why people seem to know so little about politics and what we can do
about it. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lupia, Arthur, and Matthew D. McCubbins. (1998). The democratic dilemma. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
McGann, A. (2016). Voting choice and rational choice. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Politics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mills, C. Wright (1956). The power elite.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.
Nie, Norman H., Sidney Verba and John R. Petrocik. (1976). The changing American voter.
Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press.
Page, Benjamin I., and Robert Y. Shapiro (1992). Therationalpublic:fiftyyearsoftrendsinAmericans’
policy preferences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Pomper, Gerald M. (1972). From confusion to clarity: issues and American voters, 1956–1968. The
American Political Science Review 66(2): 415–28. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055400259285
Popkin, Samuel L. (1991). The reasoning voter: communication and persuasion in presidential
campaigns. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press.
Rabin, Matthew (1998). Psychology and economics. JournalofEconomicLiterature36(1): 11–46.
http://www.pugetsound.edu/facultypages/gmilam/courses/econ291/readings/Rabin98.pdf
Redlawsk, David P., and Richard R. Lau (2013). Behavioural decision making. In Leonie Huddy,
DavidO.SearsandJackS.Levy,eds.The Oxford handbook of political psychology, 2nd edn,
130–64. New York: Oxford University Press.
Squire, Peverill (1988). Why the 1936 Literary Digest poll failed. Public Opinion Quarterly 52(1):
125–33. DOI: 10.1086/269085
Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman (1991). Loss aversion in riskless choice: a referencedependent
model. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 106(4): 1039–61.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/austen/tversky1991.pdf
—— (1981). The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science 211: 453–58.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/surveys.course/TverskyKahneman1981.pdf
Watts, Duncan J., and Peter Sheridan Dodds (2007). Influentials, networks, and public opinion
formation. Journal of Consumer Research 34(4): 441–58. DOI: 10.1086/518527
Zaller, John (1992). The nature and origins of mass opinion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press.
Zaller, John, and Stanley Feldman (1992). A simple theory of the survey response: answering
questions versus revealing preference. American Journal of Political Science 36(3): 579–616.
http://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS234/articles/zaller_feldman.pdf
About the author
Dr Shaun Ratcliff is a lecturer in political science at the United States Studies Centre
at the University of Sydney. His research examines public opinion, the behaviour of
political actors and the role of parties as interest aggregators in the USA, Australia
485