Controversies in voting behavior / edited by Richard G. Niemij, Herbert F. Weisberg, David C. Kimball.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The study of voting and elections -- Is political participation declining or simply changing form? -- News vs. entertainment : how increasing media choice widens gaps in political knowledge and turnout / Markus Prior -- Voter turnout : eligibility has its benefits / Michael P. McDonald -- How important are informational differences among voters? -- The Oprah effect : how soft news helps inattentive citizens vote consistently / Matthew A. Baum and Angela S. Jamison -- Advantages and disadvantages of cognitive heuristics in political decision making / Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk -- Political sophistication and policy reasoning : a reconsideration (updated) / Paul Goren -- Are economic factors weakening as vote determinants? -- The political conditioning of economic perceptions / Geoffrey Evans and Robert Andersen -- Purple America / Stephen Ansolabehere, Jonathan Rodden, and James M. Snyder, Jr. -- Is the American electorate polarized? -- Resurgent mass partisanship : the role of elite polarization (updated) / Marc J. Hetherington -- Is polarization a myth? / Alan I. Abramowitz and Kyle L. Saunders -- Polarization in the American public : misconceptions and misreadings / Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams, and Jeremy C. Pope -- The 2008 election : polarization continues / Alan I. Abramowitz -- Where's the polarization? / Morris P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Adams -- What are the sources of the Republican realignment in the South? -- Economic development and a politics of class / Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston -- The reintroduction of the Elephas maximus to the southern United States : the rise of Republican state parties, 1960-2000 (updated) / M.V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris -- Racial and moral issues in the evolution of the "Southern strategy" / D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd G. Shields.