Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments
part i. voting for policy
1 Introduction: Institutional Sources of Voter Choice
2

A Theory of Compensatory Vote

part ii. empirical evidence: how voters

compensate for diffusion of power
3 Compensatory Vote in Parliamentary Democracies

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3
17

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Balancing Strong (and Weak) Presidents

102

Compensatory Vote in Federations: Evidence from

Germany

142

part iii. theoretical implications

6 Conclusion

181

References
Index

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