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rational voter model  

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  • THE RATIONAL VOTER model is one of the major alternative explanations of voting behavior to arise in the wake of the now-classic American Voter study by Angus Campbell, Phillip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes, released in 1960. While it was not the first in-depth examination of voter behavior, it is certainly the most influential and controversial. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior; Rational Voter Model]

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