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This also means that almost any of the methods and results in this book can be verified fairly easily and extended to new cases. Although the book necessarily uses mathematical and statistical methods, they are not overly complex and are designed to show specifically the effect of conformity. Most of the findings are presented graphically as well, so that the power of the results is not hidden by abstruse statistics.
Portions of the book were adapted from the following publications of the author: “Testing Theories With Qualitative and Quantitative Predictions,” European Political Science (vol. 6(2), pp. 124–133), copyright 2007, European Consortium for Political Research, Palgrave Macmillan, publisher; “The Effect of Social Conformity on Collective Voting Behavior,” Political Analysis (vol. 12, pp. 76–96), copyright 2004, Society for Political Methodology, Oxford University Press, publisher; and “A Test for the Effect of Conformity on Crime Rates Using Voter Turnout,” Sociological Quarterly (vol. 43, pp. 257–276), copyright 2002, Midwest Sociological Society, University of California Press, publisher. These are included with permission of the copyright holders. Some research findings were also presented at the general conference of the European Political Research Consortium, Budapest, September 2005.