Popular Delusions:  How Social Conformity Molds Society and Politics
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Election Entropy Calculation

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Frequency Information and Social Categories

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Personal Names

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Answering the Census

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Selective Service Registration

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Abortion Decisions

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Emergent Conformity and Number of Alternative Choices

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Chapter 4: Voter Turnout, Crime, and Conformity

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Predicted Relation Between Voter Turnout and Crime

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Testing the Prediction

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Data and Variables Analyzed

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Statistical Analysis

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Crime Rates and Conformity in the United States

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Crime in Germany and Japan

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Lynching: Crime or Conformity?

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Crime and Conformity: Connections on a Large Scale

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Chapter 5: Conformity in Voting Choices

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The Choice Among Political Parties

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Spillover

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Predictive Tests for Conformity in Voting

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Alternative Models

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Testing the Conformity Model

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What About the Number of Political Parties

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Countries and Elections Examined

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Conformity in American Presidential Elections

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Western Europe, New Zealand, and Canada

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Russia and Eastern Europe

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Japan

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Brazil and Peru: A Question of Invalid Ballots

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India

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Overview of the Analysis

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