Voting for Policy, Not Parties: How Voters Compensate For Power Sharing

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 4. Balancing strong (and weak) presidents 5. Compensatory vote in federations: evidence from Germany Part III. Conclusion and Theoretical Implications: 6. Summary, extensions, and implications.