Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States

Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States is a fascinating, evidence-based journey through some of the problematic and highly dramatic elections held in the United States and Canada over the last 30 years. American Review of Canadian Studies

A timely and important contribution to voting literature. Both Canadians and Americans will develop a better understanding of their neighbours' elections, but will also gain many new insights into the politics of their own country in the process. Larry LeDuc, University of Toronto

How do people make political choices without being experts on policy? Clarke, Kornberg, and Scotto show that voters are 'smart enough to know that they are not smart enough.' Instead, they rely on trusted clues that will help them figure out which party can best handle the most important issues of the day. The fundamentals matter across time, country, and level of government, and in this book we see the patterns unfold clearly and with great interpretation. Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles