If we look at it a little more broadly, partisan identification can be seen as a kind of shortcut. This jargon comes from this type of explanation. We are looking at the interaction. - What we're going to do in this video is start to think about voting behavior, and in particular, we're going to start classifying motivations for why someone votes for a particular candidate, and I'm going to introduce some terms that will impress your political science friends, but you'll see that they map two things that . preferences and positions. One must take into account the heterogeneity of the electorate and how different voters may have different motivations for choosing which party or candidate to vote for. For Fiorina, the retrospective vote is the fact that current policy is fundamental, whereas in the prospective vote it is less so. changes in voting behaviour from one election to the next. There are two slightly different connotations. It also proposes a reconceptualization of the concept of partisanship in order to integrate all relevant contributions of the . Symbols evoke emotions. Voters who rely on strong partisan identification do not need to go and do systematic voting or take one of the shortcuts. From the parties' perspective, this model makes different predictions than the simple proximity model, which made a prediction of convergence of a centripetal force with respect to party positioning. 0000005382 00000 n
There is a whole literature on opinion formation, quite consensually, that says that citizens have a limited capacity to process information. The voters have to make that assessment and then decide which one brings more income and which one we will vote for. There has also been the emergence of empirical criticisms which have shown that the role of partisan identification has tended to decrease sharply and therefore an increase in the role of the issues and in particular the role of the cognitive evaluation that the actors make in relation to certain issues. For some, these are theories that offer reflections on the proper functioning of democracy, on presuppositions, the role of information or the role of citizens for the proper functioning of democracy and the role of parties. The second explanation refers to the directional model, i.e. Radical approach regards class-based (structural) model as outdated and insufficient to explain . Today, when we see regression analyses of electoral choice, we will always find among the control variables social status variables, a religion variable and a variable related to place of residence. This theory is not about the formation of political preferences, they start from the idea that there are voters with certain political preferences and then these voters will look at what the offer is and will choose according to that offer. The psychological and socio-economic model are strongly opposed, offering two explanations that are difficult to reconcile, even though there have been efforts to try to combine them. The anomaly is that there is a majority of the electorate around the centre, but there are parties at the extremes that can even capture a large part of the preferences of the electorate. His conclusion is that the vote is explained both by elements of leadership, partly by an element of proximity and distance, but also, for some parties, it must also be taken into account that there are parties that act according to a mobilization of the electorate according to the approach of Przeworski and Sprague. Of course, there have been attempts to assess the explanatory power of directional models, but according to these researchers, these spatial models were designed to be purely theoretical in order to highlight on a purely theoretical level what motivations voters may have for their electoral choice. Another possible strategy is to rely on the judgment of others such as opinion leaders. The psycho-sociological model can be seen in the light of an explanatory contribution to the idea that social inking is a determining factor in explaining the vote, or at least on a theoretical level. It is a theory that makes it possible to explain both the voting behaviour of voters and the organisational behaviour of political parties. What determines direction? We project voters' preferences and political positions, that is, the positions that parties have on certain issues and for the preferences that voters have on certain issues. (1949). The main explanatory factors have been sought in socio-economic status and socio-demographic variables such as "age," "gender," and "education. These are voters who proceed by systematic voting. The first question is how to assess the position of the different parties and candidates, since we start from the idea of projecting voters' political preferences and party projections onto a map. It is a small bridge between different explanations. According to Fiorina, identification with a party is not necessarily the result of a long phase of socialization, but it is also the result of evaluations of a certain party, it is the fact of voting for that party that makes it possible to develop a partisan identification. Voters will vote for a party but that party is not necessarily the one with which they identify. For example, a strongly conservative voter who votes Democratic may vote Republican because he or she feels more in tune with the party. Voters try to maximize their individual utility. This is more related to the retrospective vote. There is also the economic vote, which is the role of the economy. The idea of the directional model, and this applies to both the simple directional model and the intensity directional model, is that voters basically cannot clearly perceive the different positions of political parties or candidates on a specific issue. The advantage of the intensity directional model is that it goes in a more intense direction, i.e. For some, this model overestimates the capabilities that voters have. (Second edition.) Since the economic crisis, there has been an increasing focus on the economic crisis and economic conditions and how that can explain electoral volatility and electoral change. There is an opposite reasoning. social determinism Voting is an act of altruism. 0000007057 00000 n
Voters who vote against the party with which they identify keep their partisan identification. Some people talk about membership voting for the first two theories and cognitive voting for the economic model of voting. Due to the internet of behaviors (IoBe) information, user-specific recommendations can be customized in various fields such as trade, health, economy, law, and entertainment. We must assess the costs of going to the polls, of gathering the information needed to make a decision, but also the value of one's own participation, since the model is also supposed to explain voter turnout. Proximity can be calculated on the basis of the programmes and actual positions declared by the parties or on the basis of a discount factor, a perception factor or a difference factor according to the discount model. Value orientations refer to materialism as well as post-materialism, among other things, cleavages but no longer from a value perspective. voters who follow a systematic vote are voters who are willing to pay these information or information-related costs. 0000000636 00000 n
The basic assumption is that voters decide primarily on the basis of ideologies and not on the basis of specific positions on issues. The idea is that this table is the Downs-Hirschman model that would have been made in order to summarize the different responses to the anomaly we have been talking about. the translation of personal preference into a voluntary action designed to influence public policy The function of partisan identification is to allow the voter to face political information and to know which party to vote for. This theory presupposed that the voter recognizes his or her own interest, assesses alternative candidates, and on the basis of this assessment, will choose for the candidate or party that will be most favourably assessed in the sense of best serving his or her own political interests and interests. The curve instead of the simple proximity model, or obviously the maximization from the parties' point of view of electoral support, lies in the precise proximity between voters' preferences and the parties' political programs on certain issues, in this case this remains true but with a lag that is determined by discounting from a given status quo. It is a theory that is made in the interaction between supply and demand, that is, between parties offering something and voters asking for something. They find that conscientious and neurotic people tend not to identify with a political party. The image that an individual has of himself in this perspective is also the result of this identification. Distance is understood in the sense of the proximity model for whom voter preference and party position is also important. Today, there is an attempt to combine the different explanations trying to take into account, both sociological determinants but also the emotional and affective component as well as the component related to choice and calculation. [14] They try to answer the question of how partisan identification is developing and how partisan identification has weakened because they look at the stability over time of partisan identification. In other words, the voters' political preferences on different issues, in other words, in this type of theorizing, they know very well what they want, and what is more, these positions are very fixed and present when the voter is going to have to vote. It is a variant of the simple proximity model which remains in the idea of proximity but which adds an element which makes it possible to explain certain voting behaviours which would not be explainable by other models. These are possible answers more to justify and account for this anomaly. When you vote, you are taking your personal time and effort to advance the collective good, without any guarantee of personal rewardthe very heart of what it means to be altruistic. The spatial theory of the vote postulates that the electoral choice is made in the maximization of individual utility. In the literature, we often talk about the economic theory of voting. So, voters evaluate the positions of the parties and from these positions, this party is a left-wing party and this party is a right-wing party. It is a third explanation given by Przeworski and Sprague in their theory of partisan competition, also known as the theory of mobilization of the electorate. If we accept this premise, how will we position ourselves? 0000008661 00000 n
Four landmark studies connected with the presidential elections of 1940, 1948, 1952, and 1956 mark the establishment of scholarly survey-based research on voting behavior (Rossi 1959). There are other cleavages that cut across Republicans and Democrats that should be taken into account to explain the pattern. This paper examines two models used in survey research to explain voting behavior. There are three possible answers: May's Law of Curvilinear Disparity is an answer that tries to stay within the logic of the proximity model and to account for this empirical anomaly, but with the idea that it is distance and proximity that count. In this model, importance is given to primary socialization. On that basis, voters calculate the utility income of the different parties and then they look at and evaluate the partisan differential. As far as the proximity model with discounting is concerned, there is a concern when we are going to apply it empirically: we need to be able to determine what the degree of discounting is, how much the voter is going to discount. Proximity means the closeness of the voter's interests to the political proposals that are made with the parties. . The sociological model at the theoretical level emphasizes something important that rationalist and economic theories have largely overlooked, namely, the importance of the role of social context, i.e., voters are all in social contexts and therefore not only family context but also a whole host of other social contexts. Some parties have short-term strategies for maximizing voting and others have long-term strategies for social mobilization. Theoretically, it is possible to have as many dimensions as there are issues being discussed in an election campaign. Three Models of Voting Behavior. The idea of prospective voting is very demanding. 0000001124 00000 n
The term "group" can mean different things, which can be an ethnic group or a social class. They find that partisan identification becomes more stable with age, so the older you get, the more partisan identification you have, so it's much easier to change when you're young. This idea of an issue was not invented by the proponents of the economic model of voting but was already present in the psycho-sociological model. The simple proximity model is that the voter will vote for the party or parties that are in the same direction. According to them, it is necessary to combine different types of explanations and in particular, in the electoral choice, the components related to proximity, leadership, and also the rather "intensity" leadership, all of which play a significant role in the positioning of candidates and parties. Property qualifications. On the basis of this analysis a behavioral model is constructed, which is then tested on data from a Dutch election survey. Many researchers have criticised the Downs proximity model in particular. We need to find identification measures adapted to the European context, which the researchers have done. The idea of intensity can also be seen as the idea that there are certain issues, that there are certain political positions that put forward symbols and some of these symbols evoke making these two issues more visible to voters but in the sense of making voters say that this particular party is going in that direction and with a high intensity. In the study of electoral behaviour, there is a simple distinction between what is called prospective voting and retrospective voting. In short, it is an explanatory model that emphasizes the role of political attitudes. Voters are more interested in political results than in political programmes, and the choice is also made from this perspective. 43 0 obj
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Partisan identification becomes stronger over time. One can draw a kind of parallel with a loss of importance of the strength of partisan identification and also of the explanatory power of partisan identification. We can talk about two major theories or two major models or even three models. Psychology and Voting Behavior In the same years that behaviorism (of various forms) came to dominate the A distinction must be made between the affective vote of the psycho-sociological model and the cognitive vote of the theories of the economic model. There are other models and economic theories of the vote, including directional theories that have a different perspective but remain within the framework of economic theories of the vote. Economic theories of voting explain both voter turnout (1) and electoral choice (2). What interests us is that the idea of issue voting is fundamental to spatial theories of voting. They try to elaborate a bit and find out empirically how this happens. Hirschman wanted to explain what happens in organizations when they enter a situation of crisis or decline. McClung Lee, A. It is easier to look at what someone has done than to evaluate the promises they made. 5. Finally, in a phase of misalignment, this would be the economic model, since there is a loss of these partisan loyalties, so these voters become more and more reactive to political events and therefore may be more rational in their decision-making process. The Michigan model was based on the idea of socialization and partisan identification as a long-term attachment to a party that is the result of primary socialization in particular, and therefore as insertion into a given social context. It is by this configuration that May tries to explain this anomaly which is due to the fact that there is a group of voters who become activists within the party and who succeed in shifting the party's positioning towards the extremes. These criticisms and limitations are related to the original model. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. We are going to talk about the economic model. Nevertheless, some of these spatial theories depart from this initial formulation. p. 31). There are two important issues in relation to the spatial theory of voting. The idea is to create a party that forges ideologies and partisan identities. In spring of 2021, key people working in homelessness services in Vancouver flew to San Diego to learn about the Alpha Project's model . The idea is that it is in circles of interpersonal relations even if more modern theories of opinion leaders look at actors outside the personal circle. So there is an overestimation in this model with respect to capacity. So all these elements help to explain the vote and must be taken into account in order to explain the vote. The psycho-sociological model, also known as the Michigan model, can be represented graphically or schematically. What voters perceive are directional signals, that is, voters perceive that some parties are going in one direction and other parties are going in another direction on certain issues. This model of directional proximity with intensity illustrates what is called symbolic politics which is related to the problem of information. Four questions around partisan identification. It is a model that is very close to data and practice and lends itself very easily to empirical testing through measures of partisan identification and different measures of socio-demographic factors among others. Some have another way of talking about convergences and showing how the theories explaining the vote can be reconciled with the process of political misalignment. What are the criteria for determining the individual usefulness of voters? The individual is subjectivity at the centre of the analysis. Video transcript. The strategic choices made by parties can also be explained by this model since, since this model postulates an interdependence between supply and demand, we address the demand but we can also address the supply. What we see here in relation to the sociological model and that these variables highlighted by the sociological model such as socialization, inking or social position play a role but only indirectly. The economic model makes predictions and tries to explain both the participation but also, and above all, the direction of the vote, which is the electoral choice. One important element of this model must be highlighted in relation to the others. 3105. Here, preferences are endogenous and they can change. 0000007835 00000 n
Then they evaluate their own position in relation to the issues and they do the same operation positioning themselves on this left-right axis. Another model is called the funnel model of causality which has been proposed by these authors working on the psycho-sociological model. Sometimes, indeed often, people combine the first two models incorporating the psycho-sociological model on the basis that the Michigan model is just an extension of the Columbia model that helps explain some things that the Columbia model cannot explain. Within the ambit of such a more realistic, limited-rational model of human behavior, mitigation outcomes from . In this approach, these voters keep their partisan identification and again in the medium or long term, they will go back on the electoral choice that is identified with the partisan identification, also called the homing tendency, which is a tendency to go back on the party with which one identifies. There was a whole series of critics who said that if it's something rational, there's a problem with the way democracy works. 43 17
From the perspective of the issue vote, there are four main ways to explain how and why voters are going to vote a certain way and why parties are going to position themselves. The idea that one identifies oneself, that one has an attitude, an attachment to a party was certainly true some forty years ago and has become less and less true and also the explanatory power of this variable is less important today even if there are significant effects. In this way, parties can offer relatively extreme political platforms that are not optimal in the short term, but that generate higher levels of support in the medium and long term. La dernire modification de cette page a t faite le 11 novembre 2020 00:26. We want to know how and why a voter will vote for a certain party. We talk about the electoral market in the media or the electoral supply. The reference work is The Peoples Choice published in 1948 by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet. This is the basic motivation for the development of these directional models. . This approach would be elitist, this assumption that voters have the ability to know what is going on which is the idea of information and this ability that voters have to look at that information and process it. 102 Lake City, FL 32055 OR 17579 SW State Road 47 Fort White, FL 32038. Maximizing utility is done in proximity to certain issues. The intensity directional model adds an element that is related to the intensity with which candidates and political parties defend certain positions. There is in fact the idea that the choices and preferences of voters in the centre will cause the parties, since they are aiming in this model, to try to maximize their electoral support. This model predicts a convergence of party program positions around two distinct positions, there are two types of convergence. HUr0c:*+ $ifrh
b98ih+I?v1q7q>. Lazarsfeld was interested in this and simply, empirically, he found that these other factors had less explanatory weight than the factors related to political predisposition and therefore to this social inking. Directional model with intensity: Rabinowitz, Four possible answers to the question of how voters decide to vote, Unified Voting Model: Merrill and Grofman, Responses to criticisms of the proximity model, Partisan Competition Theory: Przeworski and Sprague, Relationship between voting explanatory models and realignment cycle. We leave behind the idea of spatial theories that preferences are exogenous, that they are pre-existing and almost fixed. The premise of prospective voting is too demanding for most voters. There are different strategies that are studied in the literature. Grofman's idea is to say that the voter discounts what the candidates say (discounting) based on the difference between current policy and what the party says it will do or promise. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. This is a very common and shared notion. The basic idea is the representation of a point that is an ideal point for each voter in a hypothetical space. Bakker, B. N., Hopmann, D. N., & Persson, M. (2014). 0000010337 00000 n
That is called the point of indifference. A rather subjective and almost sentimental citizen is placed at the centre of the analysis. This article reviews the main theoretical models that explain the electoral behavior sociological model of voting behavior, psychosocial model of voting behavior and rational. There is the idea of the interaction between a political demand and a political offer proposed by the different candidates during an election or a vote. The idea is that there is something easier to evaluate which is the ideology of a party and that it is on the basis of this that the choice will be made. Another strategy is the so-called "shortcut" that voters take within the rationalist framework of voting, since they are confronted with the problem of information and have to choose on the basis of this information. Numerous studies examine voting behavior based on the formal theoretical predictions of the spatial utility model. The psycho-sociological model initiated the national election studies and created a research paradigm that remains one of the two dominant research paradigms today and ultimately contributed to the creation of electoral psychology. Often, in the literature, the sociological and psycho-sociological model fall into the same category, with a kind of binary distinction between the theories that emphasize social, belonging and identification on the one hand, and then the rationalist and economic theories of the vote, which are the economic theories of the vote that focus instead on the role of political issues, choices and cost-benefit calculations. It is necessary to distinguish between two types of voters and to make a distinction between a literature that has become increasingly important in recent years on opinion formation in an election or voting context. In this theory, we vote for specific issues that may be more or less concrete, more or less general, and which form the basis for explaining electoral behaviour. It is the idea of when does one or the other of these different theories provide a better explanation according to periods of political alignment or misalignment. Political conditions as well as the influence of the media play an important role, all the more so nowadays as more and more political campaigns and the role of the media overlap. What is interesting is that they try to relate this to personality traits such as being open, conscientious, extroverted, pleasant and neurotic. A unified theory of voting: directional and proximity spatial models. In this model, there is a region of acceptability of positional extremism which is a region outside of which the intensity of the positions or the direction shown by a party cannot go because if it goes beyond that region, the voter will no longer choose that party. There have been several phases of misalignment. The reference work is The People's Choice published in 1948 by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet. Otherwise, our usefulness as voters decreases as a party moves away, i.e. What we are interested in is on the demand side, how can we explain voters' electoral choice. We must also, and above all, look at the links between types of factors. Ideology can also be in relation to another dimension, for example between egalitarian and libertarian ideology. There are several theories emphasizing different factors which may shape citizens' voting behavior. . This identification with a party is inherited from the family emphasizing the role of primary socialization, it is reinforced over time including a reinforcement that is given by the very fact of voting for that party. These are models that should make us attentive to the different motivations that voters may or may not have to make in making an electoral choice. IVERSEN, T. (1994). For Lazarsfeld, we think politically how we are socially, there is not really the idea of electoral choice. xxxiii, 178. The theories that are supposed to explain the electoral choice also explain at the same time the electoral participation in particular with the sociological model. offers a behavior analysis of voting behavior. Voting for a candidate from one party in one race and for the other party's candidate in another race is known as. The book's focus was sociological, mainly considering socio-demographic predictors, interpersonal influence, cross-pressures, and the effects of social groups, as well as analyzing voter activation, reinforcement, and conversion across the election year. It is in this sense that the party identification model provides an answer to this criticism that the sociological model does not highlight the mechanisms that make a certain social inking influence a certain electoral choice. What explains historical variation in voter turnout? There is a small bridge that is made between these two theories with Fiorina on the one hand and the Michigan model of another party that puts the concept of partisan identification at the centre and that conceives of this concept in a very different way, especially with regard to its origin. The problem of information is crucial in the spatial theories of voting and who would need an answer to fully understand these different theories. The presupposition for spatial theories of voting has already been mentioned, namely the stake vote. There are three actors at play in this theory: there are voters, candidates, and an intermediate group represented by activists who are in fact voters who become activists going to exercise "voice". In prospective voting, Grofman said that the position of current policy is also important because the prospective assessment that one can make as a voter of the parties' political platforms also depends on current policy. carried out by scholars at Columbia. _____ were the first widespread barriers to the franchise to be eliminated. In the spatial theories of the vote, we see the strategic link between a party's supply and a demand from voters or electors. There is also a literature on whether certain parties have certain issues, which voters believe are the parties that are better able to deal with a certain issue. In other words, there is a social type variable, a cultural type variable and a spatial type variable. Four questions can be asked in relation to this measure: For the first question, there are several studies on the fact that partisan identification is multi-dimensional and not just one-dimensional. 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