Richard Gunther - Voting in Old and New Democracies

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Voting in old and new democracies / edited by Richard Gunther,

Paul A. Beck, Pedro Magalhes and Alejandro Moreno.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. VotingCase studies. 2. DemocracyCase studies.

I. Gunther, Richard. II. Beck, Paul Allen.

III. Magalhes, Pedro. IV. Moreno, Alejandro.

JF1001.V685 2015

324.65dc23

2015005922

ISBN: 978-1-138-91331-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-91332-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-69155-8 (ebk)

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Paul Allen Beck (PhD, University of Michigan) is a professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University. Before retiring in June 2012, he was a distinguished professor of social and behavioral science and a professor of political science and (by courtesy) of communication and sociology. He has served as chair of the departments of political science at Florida State University and Ohio State University and as dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State. His research and teaching interests are focused on political parties, voting behavior, political intermediation processes and public opinion in the US and abroad. He was coprincipal investigator for the national US surveys of the 1992, 2004 and 2012 electorates. He is co-founder and co-director of the Comparative National Elections Project. He has published many articles and two books dealing with political behavior and political parties. Beck has received Ohio State Universitys Distinguished Scholar and Distinguished University Service awards. He received the American Political Science Associations Goodnow Award for distinguished service to the profession and its Eldersveld Award for lifetime professional contributions to the field of political organizations and parties.

Richard Gunther (PhD, University of California at Berkeley), a professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University, is the international co-coordinator of the Comparative National Elections Project and coprincipal investigator of national election surveys conducted in Spain (1979, 1982, 1988, 1993 and 2004), the US (2004 and 2012), Uruguay (1994), Bulgaria (1996) and Hungary (1998). From 1989 through 2000 he served as co-chair of the Subcommittee on Southern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. In addition to many scholarly articles and book chapters, Gunther is author or editor of 14 books, most of them dealing with political parties, electoral behavior, the impact of the media on politics and transitions to democratic rule. He is recipient of Ohio State Universitys Distinguished University Service and a Distinguished Scholar awards.

Pedro C. Magalhes (PhD, Ohio State University) is a principal researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. His research and teaching interests are focused on public opinion, political attitudes, electoral behavior and judicial politics. He was one of the founders of the Portuguese Election Study and is a member of the planning committee of modules 4 and 5 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, of the board of the European Election Study, and of the European Values Study Theory Group. His many articles have appeared in such leading journals as the American Journal of Political Science , the European Journal of Political Research , Public Choice , West European Politics , International Journal of Public Opinion Research and Comparative Politics , among others. His 2003 PhD dissertation received the Distinguished Dissertation in the Social Sciences Award from the Council of Graduate Schools (representing graduate schools throughout the US and Canada).

Alejandro Moreno (PhD, University of Michigan) is a professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnolgico Autnomo de Mxico and the director of public opinion research at Reforma newspaper, both in Mexico City. He currently serves as president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, as vice president of the World Values Survey Association and as managing director for the Latinobarmetro annual surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has been a co-investigator for the Mexico Panel Study in the 2000, 2006 and 2012 Mexican presidential elections and principal investigator in Mexico for Comparative National Elections Project surveys in 2006 and 2012. He is the author of nine books and over 65 scholarly articles and book chapters on public opinion, voting behavior and political values, in addition to more than 2,500 articles published in Reforma (Mexicos leading newspaper) and other journalistic outlets. He has twice received the Sir Robert Worcester Prize for best article published by the International Journal of Public Opinion Research , in 2007 and 2010.

Paolo Bellucci is a professor of political science at the University of Siena. He is vice president of Italian National Election StudiesITANESand chair of the Standing Group of the Italian Political Science Association on Parties, Public Opinion and Elections. His research focuses on comparative political behavior and Italian politics.

Yun-han Chu (PhD, University of Minnesota) is a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and a professor of political science at National Taiwan University. He is president of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, former president of the Chinese Association of Political Science and a founder of the Global Barometer Survey. His research centers on China and East Asia.

R. William Liddle (PhD, Yale University) is a professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University and a specialist on Southeast Asian, particularly Indonesian, politics. His current research focuses on political leadership, voting behavior and popular attitudes towards Islamic politics in Indonesia.

Marco Lisi (PhD, University of Florence) is a lecturer at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research interests focus on political parties, electoral behavior, democratic theory and political communication.

Marina Costa Lobo (D.Phil., Oxford University) is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and a lecturer at the Lisbon University Institute. She is co-director of the Portuguese Election Study and a co-editor of the journal South European Society and Politics . Her research interests include the role of leaders in electoral behavior, political parties and institutions. She has published books in English and Portuguese and articles in Electoral Studies , the European Journal of Political Research and Political Research Quarterly .