1. Respondents were asked to place the Socialist, Labor, Liberal, Center, Christian, Conservative, and Progressive parties. The set of issues included left-right, agricultural support, environmental protection, regulation of immigration, regulation of alcohol, and privatization of health care. For a full description of the variables, see Macdonald, Listhaug, and Rabinowitz (1991).
2. Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election
3. This intuitively attractive view of issue-based evaluation has been criticized as demanding too much information from voters (e.g., Stokes 1963; Rabinowitz and Macdonald 1989).
4. The Storting Election of 1989: Polarization and Protest
5. Judging the positions of political candidates: Models of assimilation and contrast.