For example, there is Lazarsfeld's theory with the idea that opinion leaders can be seen as people to whom we attribute a strong trust and maybe even an esteem in relation to the political judgment they may have and therefore, by discussing with these people, it is possible to form an electoral choice and therefore there is no need to go and pay these costs of gathering information. The cause-and-effect relationship is reversed, according to some who argue that this is a problem at the empirical level when we want to study the effect of partisan identification on electoral choice because there is a problem of endogeneity; we no longer know what explains what. 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. changes in voting behaviour from one election to the next. This creates a concern for circularity of reasoning. La dernire modification de cette page a t faite le 11 novembre 2020 01:26. This approach emphasizes a central variable which is that of partisan identification, which is a particular political attitude towards a party. Candidate choices are made towards parties or candidates who are going in the same direction as the voter, this being understood as the voters' political preferences on a given issue. Webmagnitude of changes between elections. In the psychological approach, the information problem is circumvented by the idea of the development of partisan identification, which is an emotional shortcut that voters operate. What we are interested in is on the demand side, how can we explain voters' electoral choice. One must assess the value of one's own participation and also assess the number of other citizens who will vote. We are not ignoring the psychological model, which focuses on the identification people have with parties without looking at the parties. [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. 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. This electoral volatility, especially in a period of political misalignment, is becoming more and more important and is increasingly overshadowed by this type of explanation. The study of voting behavior is a sub-field of Political Science. The third criterion is rationality, which is that based on the theory of rational choice, voters mobilize the limited means at their disposal to achieve their goals, so they will choose the alternative among the political offer that costs them the least and brings them the greatest possible benefit. But a synthesis of traditions must be undertaken if further understanding of voting behavior is to build on earlier work. [8][9], The second very important model is the psycho-sociological model, also known as the partisan identification model or Michigan School model, developed by Campbell, Converse, Miller and Stokes in Campbell, Converse, Miller and Stokes, among others in The American Voter published in 1960. WebIn this perspective, voting is essentially a question of attachment, identity and loyalty to a party, whereas in the rationalist approach it is mainly a question of interest, cognition and One of the answers within spatial theories is based on this criticism that voters are not these cognitively strong beings as the original Downs theory presupposes. the difference in the cost-benefit ratio that different parties give. On this basis, four types of voters can be identified in a simplified manner: It is possible to start from the assumption that the characteristics of these different voters are very different. The importance of symbols lies in what arouses emotions. The further a party moves in the other direction, the less likely the voter will choose it because the utility function gradually decreases. Information is central to spatial theories, whereas in the psycho-sociological model, information is much less important. How was that measured? These theories are called spatial theories of the vote because they are projected. There are other models that try to relate the multiplicity of issues to an underlying ideological space, i.e., instead of looking at specific issues, everything is brought back to a left-right dimension as a shortcut, for example, and there are other theories that consider the degree of ambiguity and clarity of the candidates' positions. Webgain. 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. It is multidimensional also in the bipartisan context of the United States because there are cleavages that cut across parties. 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. There is an opposite reasoning. It is also often referred to as a point of indifference because there are places where the voter cannot decide. The presupposition is that voter preferences are not exogenous but are endogenous - they change within the framework of an electoral process. The same can be said of the directional model with intensity. There has been the whole emergence of the rational actor, which is the vote in relation to issues, which is not something that comes simply from our affective identification with a party, but there is a whole reflection that the voter makes in terms of cost-benefit calculations. This identification is seen as contributing to an individual's self-image. On the other hand, the political preferences are exogenous to the political process which is the fact that when the voter goes to vote which is the moment when he or she starts to think about this election, he or she already arrives with certain fixed or prefixed political preferences. 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. If we do not accept the idea that actors will vote according to their assessment of certain issues, to be more precise, according to their assessment of the position that the various parties have on certain issues, if we do not understand that, we cannot understand the spatial theories of voting either. Comparative Political Studies, 27(2), 155189. By finding something else, he shaped a dominant theory explaining the vote. The strategic choices made by parties can also be e For Fiorina the voter does not do that, he will rather look at what has happened, he will also look at the state of affairs in a country, hence the importance of the economic vote in the narrower sense of the word. WebVoting: A Behavioral Analysis Max Visser University of Twente ABSTRACT: The behavior of voting for a party in an election has important social implications, yet, due to strong Print. There was a whole series of critics who said that if it's something rational, there's a problem with the way democracy works. Voters assess the utility income of parties and candidates. The sociological model obviously has a number of limitations like any voting model or any set of social science theories. how does partisan identification develop? The original measurement was very simple being based on two questions which are a scale with a question about leadership. Proximity models will give certain proximity related answers and the other more recent models offer an alternative answer based on certain criticisms. That is what is called the proximity vote, that is, having a preference over a policy. In other words, this identification is part of the self-image one can have of oneself. The system in the United States is bipartisan and the question asked was "Do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or otherwise? Between the early 1940s and the late 1960s, four basic models of voter behavior have been proposed on which almost all studies of electoral behavior draw. Several studies show that the impact of partisan identification varies greatly from one context to another. Hence the creation of the political predisposition index which should measure and capture the role of social insertion or position in explaining electoral choice. So there is an overestimation in this model with respect to capacity. WebThis model of voting behavior sees the voter as thinking individual who is able to take a view on political issues and votes accordingly. From the point of view of parties and candidates, the economic model and in particular the model that was proposed by Downs in 1957 and which predicts a convergence of a party position towards the centre. This is called prospective voting because voters will listen to what the parties have to say and evaluate on the basis of that, that is, looking ahead. In other words, they are voters who are not prepared to pay all these costs and therefore want to reduce or improve the cost-benefit ratio which is the basis of this electoral choice by reducing the costs and the benefit will remain unchanged. With regard to the question of how partisan identification develops, the psycho-sociological model emphasizes the role of the family and thus of primary socialization, but several critics have shown that secondary socialization also plays a role. It is possible to attribute some merits and some criticisms to this model at least in its initial formulation. The second criticism is the lack of an adequate theory of preference formation. Hinich and Munger take up the Downs idea but turn it around a bit. Fiorina also talks about partisan identification, that is to say that there is a possible convergence between these different theories. The psycho-sociological model, also known as the Michigan model, can be represented graphically or schematically. If voters, who prefer more extreme options, no longer find these options within the party they voted for, then they will look elsewhere and vote for another party. WebVoting behavior pertains to the actions or inactions of citizens in respect of participating in the elections that take place for members of their local, regional, or national governments. Voting requires voters to know the candidates' positions on issues, but when there are several candidates or several parties, it is not very easy for some voters in particular. 43 0 obj <> endobj Thus, the interpretation of differences in voting behaviour from one group to another is to be sought in the position of the group in society and in the way its relations with parties have developed. Has the partisan identification weakened? Stock Exchanges Publish Clawback Proposals As required by Rule 10D-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), the New York Stock Even if there is still a significant effect of identification, there are other explanations and aspects to look for, particularly in terms of the issue vote and the assessments that different voters make of the issue vote. In order to explain this anomaly, another explanation beside the curvilinear explanation beside the directional theories of the vote, a third possibility to explain this would be to say that there are some parties that abandon the idea of maximizing the vote or electoral support in order to mobilize this electorate and for this we have to go to extremes. 0000008661 00000 n Regarding the causal ambiguity, there are also critics who say that this approach is very strongly correlational in the sense that it looks for correlations between certain social variables and electoral choices, but the approach does not explain why this variable approach really has a role and therefore what are the causal mechanisms that lead from insertion, positions, social predispositions to electoral choice. 5. 0000005382 00000 n The heterogeneity of the electorate and voters must be taken into account. On that basis, voters calculate the utility income of the different parties and then they look at and evaluate the partisan differential. A unified theory of voting: directional and proximity spatial models. They find that conscientious and neurotic people tend not to identify with a political party. The concept and this theory was developed in the United States by political scientists and sociologists and initially applied to the American political system with an attachment to the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. Its weak explanatory power has been criticized, and these are much more recent criticisms in the sense that we saw when we talked about class voting in particular, which from then on saw the emergence of a whole series of critics who said that all these variables of social position and anchoring in social contexts may have been explanatory of participation and voting at the time these theories emerged in the 1950s, but this may be much less true today in a phase or period of political misalignment. It is a paradigm that does not only explain from the macro-political point of view an electoral choice, but there is the other side of the coin which is to explain the choice that the parties make. While Downs said that there are parties that take positions on issues, the voter has difficulty with this inferring a position on a left-right axis. According to Merril and Grofman, one cannot determine whether one pure model is superior to another because there are methodological and data limitations. The idea is that each voter can be represented by a point in a hypothetical space and this space can be a space with N dimensions and each dimension represents an election campaign issue, so that this point reflects his or her ideal set of policies, i.e. Then a second question was supposed to measure the strength of that identification with the question "do you consider yourself a Republican, strong, weak or leaning towards the Democratic Party? For Lazarsfeld, "a person thinks politically as he or she is socially". The psycho-sociological model has its roots in Campell's work entitled The American Voter publi en 1960. Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there has been a strong development of directional models. Question 3. There is a whole branch of the electoral literature that emphasizes government action as an essential factor in explaining the vote, and there is a contrast between a prospective vote, which is voting according to what the parties say they will do during the election campaign, and a retrospective vote, which is voting in relation to what has been done, particularly by the government, which has attributed the successes or failures of a policy. 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. There are also studies that show that the more educated change less often from one party to another. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. In this representation, there are factors related to the cleavages, but also other factors that relate to the economic, political or social structure of a country being factors that are far removed from the electoral choice but that still exert an important effect in an indirect way the effect they have on other variables afterwards. There are other theories that highlight the impact of economic conditions and how voters compare different election results in their electoral choices, which refers to economic voting in the strict sense of the term. (1949). It is no longer a question of explaining "why" people participate but "how", that is, in terms of voter turnout, what choice is made and what can explain an electoral choice. This approach has often been criticized as a static approach since socio-economic or even socio-demographic characteristics do not change in the short term and yet the vote increasingly changes in the short term, what is called in electoral volatility, i.e. 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. Rationalist theories and spatial models of the vote have had the very beneficial relationship of putting precisely the free choice of voters at the centre of analyses. At the basis of the reflection of directional models, and in particular of directional models with intensity, there is what is called symbolic politics. The reference work is The Peoples Choice published in 1948 by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet. 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. 0000007835 00000 n Another possible strategy is to rely on the judgment of others such as opinion leaders. 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. But there are studies that also show that the causal relationship goes in the other direction. It is interesting to know that Lazarsfeld, when he began his studies with survey data, especially in an electoral district in New York State, was looking for something other than the role of social factors. In other words, there is a social type variable, a cultural type variable and a spatial type variable. They are both proximity choices and directional choices with intensity, since there are voters who may choose intensity and others who may choose direction. WebThe Michigan model is a theory of voter choice, based primarily on sociological and party identification factors. If certain conditions are present, such as good democratic functioning within the party, activists will have the opportunity to exercise "voice" and influence positions. The first one Is what we call the sociological model that was presented in the 1940s by a group of scholars from Columbia. <]>> 0000001124 00000 n On the basis of this, we can know. Fiorina's theory of retrospective voting is very simple. We see the kinship of this model with the sociological model explaining that often they are put together. October 22, 2020. In directional models with intensity, there are models that try to show how the salience of different issues changes from one group to another, from one social group to another, or from one candidate and one party to another. voters who follow a systematic vote are voters who are willing to pay these information or information-related costs. Lazarsfeld's book created this research paradigm. In Switzerland, the idea of an issue is particularly important because there is direct democracy, which is something that by definition is based on issues. The Logics of Electoral Politics. 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. Misalignment creates greater electoral volatility that creates a change in the party system that can have a feedback on the process of alignment, misalignment or realignment. One important element of this model must be highlighted in relation to the others. That discounting depends on where the policy is right now in relation to what the party is promising, and that is the directional element. party loyalties are freed from their social base and thus these party identifications are formed and crystallized. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 261(1), 194194. Grofman introduces a central element which is the position of the status quo which is not necessarily the neutral point but the current policy. If we accept this premise, how will we position ourselves? Voters try to maximize the usefulness of the vote, that is, they try to vote for the party that makes them more satisfied. Elections and voters: a comparative introduction. From that point on, there has been the development of a whole body of literature on political psychology. Voters will vote for a party but that party is not necessarily the one with which they identify. 0000001213 00000 n 0000006260 00000 n is partisan identification one-dimensional? Distance is understood in the sense of the proximity model for whom voter preference and party position is also important. Partisan identification becomes stronger over time. 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. It is a rather descriptive model, at least in its early stages. We are looking at the interaction. We need to find identification measures adapted to the European context, which the researchers have done. Fiorina proposed the question of how to evaluate the position of different parties and candidates: how can voters know what the position of different parties is during an election campaign? The publication of The American Voter in 1960 revolutionized the study of American voting behavior. Numbers abound, since we have seen that, in the end, both models systematically have a significant effect. 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. 0-8, 9, 10. The basic idea is somewhat the same, namely that it is a way that voters have at their disposal, a euristic and cognitive shortcut that voters have at their disposal to deal with the problem of complex information. McClung Lee, A. xxxiii, 178. These criticisms and limitations are related to the original model. In other words, social, spatial or group membership largely determines individual political actions. it takes a political position that evokes the idea of symbolic politics in a more salient way. 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. We are going to talk about the economic model. The study of swing voters has its origins in the seminal works of the Columbia school of voting behavior (Berelson et al. Maximizing utility is done in proximity to certain issues. There is a kind of heterogeneity of voters. 0000000929 00000 n To study the expansion of due process rights. 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. In the retrospective model, some researchers have proposed an alternative way of viewing partisan identification as being determined by the position voters take on issues. The choice of candidates is made both according to direction but also according to the intensity of positions on a given issue. These two proximity models are opposed to two other models that are called directional models with Matthews' simple directional model but especially Rabinowitz's directional model with intensity. 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. The Peoples Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign. it is an element of direction and not an element of distance or proximity that counts. A symbol is evaluated on the basis of two parameters, namely direction (1), a symbol gives a certain direction in the policy and in addition a certain intensity (2) which is to what extent is one favourable or unfavourable to a certain policy. 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. 0000009473 00000 n 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. There is an idea of interdependence between political supply and demand, between parties and voters, which is completely removed from other types of explanations. HUr0c:*+ $ifrh b98ih+I?v1q7q>. So there are four main ways. Merrill and Grofman have proposed unified models that want to get out of this hyper-simplification with respect to spatial theories where one either makes a choice of possibilities or a choice of direction but evacuates any other element such as partisan identification, socialization, social inclusion, economic conditions as well as the role of opinion leaders as seen in the funnel model of Michigan theory. xb```f`` @f8F F'-pWs$I*Xe< *AA[;;8:::X"$C[6#,bH.vdM?2Zr@ ai,L 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 economic model has put the rational and free citizen back at the centre of attention and reflection, whereas if we push the sociological model a bit to the extreme, it puts in second place this freedom and this free will that voters can make since the psycho-sociological model tells us that voting is determined by social position, it is not really an electoral choice that we make in the end but it is simply the result of our social insertion or our attachment to a party. 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. This model emphasizes the role of integration into social groups. We want to know how and why a voter will vote for a certain party. In the sociological and psycho-sociological model, there was no place for ideology, that's another thing that counts, on the other hand, in economic theories, spatial theories and Downs' theory of the economic vote, ideology is important. In Personality traits and party identification over time published in 2014 by Bakker, Hopmann and Persson, the authors attempt to explain partisan identification. in what is commonly known as the Columbia school of thought, posited that contextual factors influence the development of political attitudes and p. 31). The theory of partisan competition was completely eliminated by the other types of explanations. 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. These spatial theories start from the assumption that there is a voter or voters who have political preferences with respect to certain issues, but completely discard the explanation of how these preferences are formed. We must also take into account other socializing agents that can socialize us and make us develop a form of partisan identification. 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. The 2020 election has driven home that the United States has a disparate and at times chaotic 50-state (plus D.C.) voting system. 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