Description: Blais tackles the controversial topic of rational choice theory in an engaging and personal way, bringing together the opposing theories and literatures, and offering convincing tests of these different viewpoints in order to find out what makes people decide to vote.
Review Quotes: Bringing to bear a wealth of data from a broad range of countries, Andre Blais offers a smart and evenhanded assessment of the empirical adequacy of rational choice theories of voting. Readers will find Blais's synthesis both useful and insightful.-- "Donald Green, Yale University"