psephology

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psephology The study of elections, voting patterns, and electoral behaviour, and the forecasting of election results. This became a specialist field of political sociology with the spread of regular opinion polls on voting intentions, major post-election interview surveys, access to population census statistics for small areas, and sophisticated data analysis and modelling packages.

psephology

views updated Jun 27 2018

psephology study of public elections. XX. f. Gr. psêphos pebble, vote + -LOGY.