1. Editor's note

   • Heinz Eulau

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 6

2. Recessions and social classes: Economic impacts and political opinions

   • M. Stephen Weatherford

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 31

3. Bringing home the votes: Electoral outcomes in state legislative races

   • Gregory A. Caldeira
   • Samuel C. Patterson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 67

4. Uncertainty and political participation

   • William H. Panning

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 81

5. Stimulus differentiation versus stimulus complexity as factors affecting turnout in two-candidate and multicandidate races

   • Richard A. Brody
   • Bernard Grofman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 92

6. Economic influences on legislative elections in multiparty systems: France and Italy

   • Michael S. Lewis-Beck
   • Paolo Bellucci

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 107