A Boolean Approach To Party Preference. A Five-Country Study.
[Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Logistic Regression's
Account for Party Preference]
Prepared for delivery at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, September 2 - September 5, 2004.
Gunnar Grendstad
Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen,
Christies gate 15, N-5007 Bergen, Norway.
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NOTE:
Earlier versions of this paper received critical but constructive comments at a research
seminar at the Department of Political Science, Purdue University, 12 March, 2003, at a
workshop at the Annual Norwegian Political Science Conference in Tromsø, 7-9 January,
2004, and at a research seminar at Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen,
30 April, 2004. Thanks are due to the participants at these venues, as well as to Einar
Berntzen, Johs Hjellbrekke, Roger Larocca, Tor Midtbø, Eero Olli, and Bill Shaffer, for
comments. The paper is better for their advice.
A 2002/03 academic year sabbatical at the Department of Political Science, Purdue
University, Indiana, funded in part by the Meltzer Foundation, permitted a genereous working
environment for the initiation of this study. The survey used in the study was funded by the
Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Science Research Council, Research Grant no.
131110/541.