Date of Award
2009
Degree Type
Restricted Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Political Science
Abstract
This dissertation presents a systematic empirical study of the Polish parliamentary elections in 1997, 2001 and 2005. The analyses are performed in the framework of behavioralism and rational choice. Under these two broad academic schools of thought various theories of voting behavior have been developed over last 50 years. I demonstrate the main theoretical elements of sociological, socio-psychological, economic, and issue-based models of voting, examine the relative weight of the major variables in each model, and test their statistical significance.
Recommended Citation
Paradowski, Piotr, "Testing Models of Voter Choice: The Case of Polish Parliamentary Elections, 1997-2005" (2009). Dissertations. 39.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/39
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