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International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2008 20(4):483-493; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edn040
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

What are they Waiting for? Strategic Information for Late Deciding Voters

Galen A. Irwin and Joop J. M. Van Holsteyn

Address correpondence to Joop J. M. van Holsteyn, Department of Political Science, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands, E-mail: holsteyn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

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Across a number of Western democracies, electorates are displaying ‘a consistent pattern of delaying their choice until later stages of the campaign’ (Box-Steffensmeier & Kimball, 1999; Norris, Curtice, Sanders, Scammell, & Semetko, 1999, pp. 178–179; Dalton, McAllister, & Wattenberg, 2000, p. 48; Fournier, Nadeau, Blais, Gidengil, & Nevitte, 2004). The Netherlands is no exception to this rule. Voters have begun to choose (cf. Rose & McAllister, 1986) and increasingly are doing so at a very late stage in the campaign. In 1971, 70 percent of Dutch voters reported that they knew several months before the election for which party they would vote; only 10 percent indicated that they had made their final determination as late as the last days before Election Day. By the turn of the 21st century things had changed considerably. In 2002, only 39 percent reported that they had made their decision . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   THE SETTING
 

   RESULTS: THE NEED FOR STRATEGIC INFORMATION
 

   CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION
 

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