Why do Canadians vote the way they do? For more than 40 years, the primary objective of the ongoing Canadian Election Studies (CES) has been to investigate that question - to explain what makes people decide to vote (or not to vote), what makes them decide who to support, and why parties gain or lose ground from one election to another. After more than four decades of gathering and analyzing data, principal investigators of the CES come together in this volume to document the history of these surveys and consider their future.

This wide-ranging collection of essays provides useful...