There is a small degree of complexity because one can distinguish between attitudes towards the candidate or the party, attitudes towards the policies implemented by the different parties and attitudes about the benefits that one's own group may receive from voting for one party rather than another. and voters who choose to use euristic shortcuts to solve the information problem. 65, no. Furthermore, "social characteristics determine political preferences". On the other hand, this is true for the directional model; they manage to perceive a policy direction. From this point of view, parties adopt political positions that maximize their electoral support, what Downs calls the median voters and the idea that parties would maximize their electoral support around the center of the political spectrum. The theory of partisan competition was completely eliminated by the other types of explanations. This identification is seen as contributing to an individual's self-image. 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. Although the models rely on the same data they make radically different predictions about the political future. Basic Idea What you are vote choice ; Key foundational studies ; Lazarsfeld, Berelson, Gaudet (1944) The Peoples Choice Berelson, Lazarsfeld, McPhee (1954) Voting This is called retrospective voting, which means that we are not looking at what the parties said in their platforms, but rather at what the parties did before. Within the ambit of such a more realistic, limited-rational model of human behavior, mitigation outcomes from . These explanations are known as the Columbia Model and the Michigan Model, and describing these two . 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. Downs, Anthony. Political scientists have defined several models of voter behavior in an attempt to explain the different motivations of voters: Rational choice theory describes someone voting in their best interest, supporting the candidate whose platform will give them the most favorable outcomes. Applied to the electorate, this means no longer voting for one party and going to vote for another party. So there are four main ways. The image that an individual has of himself in this perspective is also the result of this identification. All parties that are in the same direction of the voter maximize the individual utility of that voter. An important factor is the role of political campaigns in influencing the vote. 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. There are several responses to criticisms of the proximity model. Moreover, there are analogies that are made even explicitly with the idea of the market. endstream endobj 44 0 obj <> endobj 45 0 obj <> endobj 46 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>> endobj 47 0 obj <> endobj 48 0 obj <> endobj 49 0 obj <> endobj 50 0 obj <> endobj 51 0 obj <>stream Much of the work in electoral behaviour draws on this thinking. In the spatial theories of the vote, we see the strategic link between a party's supply and a demand from voters or electors. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 261(1), 194194. The system in the United States is bipartisan and the question asked was "Do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or otherwise? It is quite interesting to see the bridges that can be built between theories that may seem different. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Distance must be taken into account and the idea of mobilizing the electorate must be taken into account. This approach emphasizes a central variable which is that of partisan identification, which is a particular political attitude towards a party. 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. 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. Some parties have short-term strategies for maximizing voting and others have long-term strategies for social mobilization. The initial formation of this model was very deterministic in wanting to focus on the role of social inclusion while neglecting other aspects, even though today there is increasingly a kind of ecumenical attempt to have an explanation that takes into account different aspects. This is the median voter theory. xxxiii, 178. Models of Voting Behavior Models of Voting Behavior Dr. Bradley Best Asst. 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. 0000000929 00000 n We worked with a sample of 516 Argentinean adults, aged 18 to 75. The goal of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the measurement of suicide severity based on the Columbia suicide severity rating scale. Voters assess the utility income of parties and candidates. As this is the first model that wanted to study empirically and test hypotheses on the basis of survey data, it was necessary to develop conceptual tools, in particular the political predisposition index, which focuses on three types of social affiliations that are fundamental in this perspective to explain electoral choices, namely social status, religion and place of residence. However, he conceives the origin and function of partisan identification in a different way from what we have seen before. . The same can be said of the directional model with intensity. On the other hand, to explain the electoral choice, we must take into account factors that are very far from the vote theoretically, but we must also take into account the fact that there are factors that are no longer close to the electoral choice during a vote or an election. Voters try to maximize their individual utility. Elections and voters: a comparative introduction. 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. It is also often referred to as a point of indifference because there are places where the voter cannot decide. There is an idea of interdependence between political supply and demand, between parties and voters, which is completely removed from other types of explanations. Thus, voters will vote for candidates who are in the direction (1) and who are going in that direction in the most intense way (2), that is, who propose policies going in that direction in the strongest and most intense way. That discounting depends on where the policy is right now in relation to what the party is promising, and that is the directional element. We see the kinship of this model with the sociological model explaining that often they are put together. 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. This model of directional proximity with intensity illustrates what is called symbolic politics which is related to the problem of information. First, they summarize the literature that has been interested in explaining why voters vary or differ in the stability or strength of their partisan identification. the translation of personal preference into a voluntary action designed to influence public policy An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy. Journal of Political Economy, vol. The simple proximity model is that the voter will vote for the party or parties that are in the same direction. What determines direction? These theories are the retrospective voting theories and the theories of ideological space. 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. emotional ties between voters and parties; a phase of political misalignment (2), which may be the one we are currently in in Europe since the economic crisis, which is a weakening of partisan loyalties resulting in increased electoral volatility, i.e. The idea is to see what are all the factors that explain the electoral choice. 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. The initial research saw three major factors to voting behaviour: Personal identification with one of the political parties, concern with issues of national government policy and personal attraction to the presidential candidates. However, we see that this is not always true and that there are parties that propose more extreme policies that receive considerable electoral support. 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. 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? Voters calculate the cost of voting. Ecological regression represents one extreme: the presumption that voting behavior changes systematically across groups but only changes randomly, if at all, within groups. it is an element of direction and not an element of distance or proximity that counts. Is partisan identification one-dimensional? This is the proximity model. In their view, ideology is a means of predicting political positions on a significant number of issues and also a basis for credible and consistent engagement by the party or candidate that follows it. A second possible answer is that they will vote for the candidate who belongs to the party with which they identify. The choice can be made according to different criteria, but they start from the assumption that there are these voters who arrive in an electoral process that refers to the idea of the hexogeneity of voters' preferences. In this model, importance is given to primary socialization. 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. Voters are more interested in political results than in political programmes, and the choice is also made from this perspective. 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. There is a direct link between social position and voting. is premised on the assumption that elections connect the will of the people to the actions of government. There was a whole series of critics who said that if it's something rational, there's a problem with the way democracy works. This table shows that for quite some time now there has been a strong decline in partisan identification. This refers to the Michigan model, the psycho-sociological model. 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 law of curvilinear disparity takes up this distinction. . 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. The limitations are the explanation of partisan identification, which is that the model has been criticized because it explains or does not explain too much about where partisan identification comes from except to say that it is the result of primary socialization. This is especially important when applying this type of reasoning empirically. This study presents an automated and accurate . trailer 0000001213 00000 n But there are studies that also show that the causal relationship goes in the other direction. Finally, there is an instrumental approach to information and voting. [10], The third model is called the economic model of the vote or the Rochester School of Economics, developed by Downs in the book An Economic Theory of Democracy published in 1957.[11]. On the other hand, women tend to have less stable partisan identification, they change more often too. 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. 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. Value orientations refer to materialism as well as post-materialism, among other things, cleavages but no longer from a value perspective. There are a whole host of typologies in relation to issues, and we distinguish different types of issues such as position issues and issues that are more or less emotional. 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. The political position of each candidate is represented in the same space, it is the interaction between supply and demand and the voter will choose the party or candidate that is closest to the voter. 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 answer to this second question will allow us to differentiate between proximity models and directional models because these two subsets of the spatial theories of voting give diametrically opposite answers to this question. Voters who vote against the party with which they identify keep their partisan identification. The extent to which the usefulness of voters' choices varies from candidate to candidate, but also from voter to voter. But more generally, when there is a campaign, the issues are discussed. There are different types of individuals who take different kinds of shortcuts or not, who vote systematically or not, and so on. Today, in the literature, we talk about the economic vote in a narrower and slightly different sense, namely that the electoral choice is strongly determined by the economic situation and by the policies that the government puts in place in particular to deal with situations of economic difficulty. Direction ("Who votes for whom?") 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. In other words, the homing tendency that is the explanation that the model postulates is much less true outside the United States. It is possible to attribute some merits and some criticisms to this model at least in its initial formulation. These authors proposed to say that there would be a relationship between the explanatory models of the vote and the cycle of alignment, realignment, misalignment in the sense that the sociological model would be better able to explain the vote in phases of political realignment. They are both proximity choices and directional choices with intensity, since there are voters who may choose intensity and others who may choose direction. We often talk about economic theory of the vote in the broadest sense in order to designate a rationalist theory based on rational choice theory and spatial theories of the vote. The second criterion is subjectivity, which is that voters calculate the costs and benefits of voting subjectively, so they make an assessment of the costs and benefits. There is the important opposition between an economic vote based on a choice, which is the idea that the voter makes a real choice based on a cost-benefit calculation, a choice that is rational in the end according to Weber's typology, while the psycho-sociological vote is rather based on a concept of loyalty that often makes the opposition between choice and loyalty. So there is an overestimation in this model with respect to capacity. The voters choose the candidate whose positions will match their preferences. The 'funnel of causality' provided a convenient framework within which to pursue both a comprehensive program of electoral accounting and a more selective strategy of explanation. 0000007835 00000 n We have to be careful, because when we talk about political psychology, we include that, but we also include the role of cognitions and rationality. Print. (June 2012) Networks in electoral behavior, as a part of political science, refers to the relevance of networks in forming citizens' voting behavior at parliamentary, presidential or local elections. 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. According to Fiorina, retrospective voting is that citizens' preferences depend not only on how close they are to the political position of a party or candidate, but also on their retrospective assessment of the performance of the ruling party or candidate. It also proposes a reconceptualization of the concept of partisanship in order to integrate all relevant contributions of the . This is the basic motivation for the development of these directional models. 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. We are not ignoring the psychological model, which focuses on the identification people have with parties without looking at the parties. 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. For Iversen, distance is also important. These are voters who proceed by systematic voting. Does partisan identification work outside the United States? We have seen that at Downs, the role of ideology is fundamental and that ideology could function as a kind of shortcut. For Lazarsfeld, we think politically how we are socially, there is not really the idea of electoral choice. There has been a lot of criticism that has allowed the idea of issue voting to develop in a rationalist context and models. The heterogeneity of the electorate and voters must be taken into account. The sociological model obviously has a number of limitations like any voting model or any set of social science theories. Merrill, Samuel, and Bernard Grofman. The basic assumption is that voters decide primarily on the basis of ideologies and not on the basis of specific positions on issues. Others have criticized this analogy between the economic market and the political market as being a bit simplistic, saying that, basically, the consequences of buying a consumer product have a certain number of consequences, but they are much more limited compared to what buying a vote can have in terms of choosing a party. Often, in Anglo-Saxon literature, this model is referred to as the party identification model. The economic model of the vote puts the notion of electoral choice back at the centre. The individual is subjectivity at the centre of the analysis. In both The People's Choice (Lazarsfeld et al., 1944) and Voting (Berelson et al., 1954), the authors Fiorina reverses the question, in fact, partisan identification can result from something else and it also produces electoral choices. 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 maximum utility is reached at the line level. IVERSEN, T. (1994). Certain developments in the theory of the psycho-sociological model have in fact provided answers to these criticisms. 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. A lawmaker's (stochastic) voting behavior is characterized by the relationship between her position in this space and the bill's position [1 . The fit of a measurement model that differentiates between the various degrees of suicidal severity was verified. 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. The psycho-sociological model has its roots in Campell's work entitled The American Voter publi en 1960. social determinism The role of the centrality of partisan identification has been criticized, especially today, because partisan identification plays a role that is still important but much less important than it used to be and may be much less important than some researchers within this paradigm have postulated. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. Information is central to spatial theories, whereas in the psycho-sociological model, information is much less important. "The answer is "yes", as postulated by spatial theories, or "no", as stated by Przeworski and Sprague, for example. Nowadays, the internet is the most used communication environment, and therefore it becomes very important to try to determine the behavior of users regarding internet use. It is possible to determine direction based on the "neutral point" which is the point in the middle, or it is also possible to determine direction from the "status quo". The second criticism is the lack of an adequate theory of preference formation. 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. Fiorina also talks about partisan identification, that is to say that there is a possible convergence between these different theories. The external factors would be the factors that, in the basic theory of the psycho-sociological approach, it would seem that this is what can do but if we have a certain partisan attachment to vote for another party because we are influenced by one or other of these factors but, basically, we keep our partisan attachment and the next time when these factors change, we return to the normal vote corresponding to the partisan attachment. This model leaves little room for the ideology which is the idea that by putting so much emphasis on the emotional voter and feelings, it leaves little room for the ideology that is central to explaining the economic model of the vote. The Neighborhood Model. According to Downs, based on the prospective assessment that voters make of the position that voters have and their position on various issues, voters arrive at and operate this shortcut by situating and bringing parties back to an ideological dimension that may be a left-right dimension but may also be another one. In other words, party activists tend to be more extreme in their political attitudes than voters or party leaders. 1948, Berelson et . Discounting is saying that the voter does not fully believe what the parties say. A unified theory of voting: directional and proximity spatial models. There may be a vote that is different from partisan identification, but in the medium to long term, partisan identification should strengthen. 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. This is a very common and shared notion. The psycho-sociological model also developed a measure called the partisan identification index, since this model wanted to be an empirical model with behaviourism and the idea of studying individual behaviours empirically with the development of national election studies and survey data to try to measure the partisan identification index. The main explanatory factors have been sought in socio-economic status and socio-demographic variables such as "age," "gender," and "education. There have been several phases of misalignment. A third possible answer is that they will vote for the candidate whose political ideas are closest to their own. 0000000866 00000 n 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. Political Behaviour: Historical and methodological benchmarks, The structural foundations of political behaviour, The cultural basis of political behaviour, PEOPLE'S CHOICE: how the voter makes up his mind in a presidential campaign, https://doi.org/10.1177/000271624926100137, https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414094027002001, https://baripedia.org/index.php?title=Theoretical_models_of_voting_behaviour&oldid=49464, Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). It is a small bridge between different explanations. 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