TY - BOOK AU - Merrill, Samuel, AU - Grofman, Bernard. TI - A unified theory of voting: directional and proximity spatial models SN - 0521662222 (hardback);0521665493 (pbk.) PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge, UK ;;New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Voting.;Social choice.;Voting;Voting;Voting N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206) and index N2 - The authors develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the US, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction ER -