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Given that you are now an expert on voting behavior, you have been asked by Niemi and Weisberg to write a chapter for an upcoming book examining the state of the literature on this subject. OR Research on elections suggests a strong link between economic conditions and presidential election outcomes. However, much of what we have read about American voters suggests that they are generally not very rational or sophisticated. You don't need to provide a bibliography.