New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. social determinism There is a whole literature on opinion formation, quite consensually, that says that citizens have a limited capacity to process information. Most voters have a sense of allegiance to a party that is inherited through the family. Symbols evoke emotions. 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. What interests us is that the idea of issue voting is fundamental to spatial theories of voting. 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". There is a direct link between social position and voting. In the study of electoral behaviour, there is a simple distinction between what is called prospective voting and retrospective voting. Voters have knowledge of the ideological positions of parties or candidates on one or more ideological dimensions and they use this knowledge to assess the political positions of these parties or candidates on specific issues. This jargon comes from this type of explanation. Voters are more interested in political results than in political programmes, and the choice is also made from this perspective. In other words, this identification is part of the self-image one can have of oneself. xref The Peoples Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign. In a phase of alignment, this would be the psycho-sociological model, i.e. 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. 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. 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. European Journal of Political Research, 54(2), 197215. In other words, the homing tendency that is the explanation that the model postulates is much less true outside the United States. 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. 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. It is a small bridge between different explanations. 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. Professor Political Science Buena Vista University Two basic concerns: Turnout ("Who votes?") Key questions: What are the characteristics and attitudes of voters vs. nonvoters? maximum proximity, as the party, his or her utility increases, and when the voter moves away from the party, his or her utility decreases. The psycho-sociological model is intended as a development that wants to respond to this criticism. The extent to which the usefulness of voters' choices varies from candidate to candidate, but also from voter to voter. 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. This model explains for Downs why we abstain. 0000000636 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. This economic theory of the vote, this rationalist theory, has a great advantage over the other models, which is that it does not only focus on voters, that is to say, it does not only focus on political demand, but it also looks at supply and especially at the interaction between supply and demand. startxref We speak of cognitive preference between one's political preferences and the positions of the parties. Hirschman contrasts the "exit" strategy with the "voice" strategy, which is based on what he calls "loyalty", which is that one can choose not to leave but to make the organization change, to restore the balance between one's own aspirations and what the organization can offer. There has been a lot of criticism that has allowed the idea of issue voting to develop in a rationalist context and models. Finally, there is an instrumental approach to information and voting. There are also studies that show that the more educated change less often from one party to another. 0000005382 00000 n The second explanation refers to the directional model, i.e. 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. Reinforcement over time since adult voters increasingly rely on this partisan identification to vote and to face the problems of information, namely partisan identification seen as a way of solving a problem that all voters have, which is how to form an idea and deal with the abundance and complexity of the information that comes to us from, for example, the media, political campaigns or others in relation to the political offer. 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. 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. 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. The same can be said of the directional model with intensity. The intensity directional model adds an element that is related to the intensity with which candidates and political parties defend certain positions. Psychology and Voting Behavior In the same years that behaviorism (of various forms) came to dominate the 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. It is also often referred to as a point of indifference because there are places where the voter cannot decide. Print. On the basis of this analysis a behavioral model is constructed, which is then tested on data from a Dutch election survey. 0000002253 00000 n 5. Various explanations have been offered over the roughly 70-year history of voting behavior research, but two explanations in particular have garnered the most attention and generated the most debate in the literature on voting behavior. 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. [15] Then we'll look at the space theories of the vote. 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. Voters who vote against the party with which they identify keep their partisan identification. Information is central to spatial theories, whereas in the psycho-sociological model, information is much less important. The importance of symbolic politics is especially capitalized on by the intensity directional models. Downs already put ideology at the centre of his explanation. Voters assess the utility income of parties and candidates. The individual is subjectivity at the centre of the analysis. 0000004336 00000 n 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. 0000000016 00000 n For the sociological model we have talked about the index of political predisposition with the variables of socioeconomic, religious and spatial status. 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. 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. 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 choice of candidates is made both according to direction but also according to the intensity of positions on a given issue. Prospective voting is the one that has been postulated by Downs and by all other researchers who work in proximity models but also in two-way models. 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. 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 is a kind of heterogeneity of voters. Is partisan identification one-dimensional? 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. Comparative Political Studies, 27(2), 155189. Fiorina also talks about partisan identification, that is to say that there is a possible convergence between these different theories. 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 Theoretically, it is possible to have as many dimensions as there are issues being discussed in an election campaign. Curiously, the intensity directional model that adds an element to the simple directional model chronologically precedes the simple directional model. 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. Some people talk about membership voting for the first two theories and cognitive voting for the economic model of voting. How does partisan identification develop? 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. This is the basic motivation for the development of these directional models. The ideological space can be defined as a left-right ideological space but can also be defined more precisely in relation to certain issues. The assumption is that mobilizing an electorate is done by taking clear positions and not a centrist position. 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. There is an opposite reasoning. How was that measured? Also called the Columbia model (after the university from whence came the researchers), the sociological model of voting behavior was constructed with the intention of studying the effect of media on voting choice. 43 0 obj <> endobj 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. Economic theories of voting explain both voter turnout (1) and electoral choice (2). For Lazarsfeld, we think politically how we are socially, there is not really the idea of electoral choice. The vote is seen here as an instrument, that is to say, there is the idea of an instrumental vote and not an expressive one. In other words, in this retrospective assessment, the economic situation of the country plays a crucial role. 65, no. 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. 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. The basic assumption is that voters decide primarily on the basis of ideologies and not on the basis of specific positions on issues. In spring of 2021, key people working in homelessness services in Vancouver flew to San Diego to learn about the Alpha Project's model . In this approach, it is possible to say that the voter accepts the arguments of a certain party because he or she feels close to a party and not the opposite which would be what the economic model of the vote postulates, that is to say that we listen to what the party has to say and we will choose that party because we are convinced by what that party says. There are two slightly different connotations. [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]. 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. 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. is partisan identification one-dimensional? In the spatial theories of the vote, we see the strategic link between a party's supply and a demand from voters or electors. 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. 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. the difference in the cost-benefit ratio that different parties give. 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. Many researchers have criticised the Downs proximity model in particular. 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. Often, in Anglo-Saxon literature, this model is referred to as the party identification model. Even more plausibly, election campaigns are built around several issues. 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. If we take into account Przeworski and Sprague's idea that preferences are exogenous and not endogenous, it is possible to create a typology as Iversen did. For Fiorina, the retrospective vote is the fact that current policy is fundamental, whereas in the prospective vote it is less so. The initial formulation of the model is based on the Downs theory in An Economic Theory of Democracy publi en 1957. The theoretical account of voting behavior drew heavily upon the metaphor of a 'funnel of causality'. In the Michigan model, the idea of stakes was already present but was somewhat underdeveloped, and this perspective on the role of stakes in the psychosocial model lent itself to both theoretical and empirical criticism from proponents of rationalist models. More specifically, the costs that the voter has to take into account according to the different parties and candidates must be evaluated, which is the partisan differential, i.e. 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. 0000001124 00000 n The strategies and shortcuts are mainly used by citizens who are interested in going to vote or in an election but who do not have a strong preference beforehand. It is multidimensional also in the bipartisan context of the United States because there are cleavages that cut across parties. It has often been emphasized that this model and approach raises more questions than answers. Numerous studies examine voting behavior based on the formal theoretical predictions of the spatial utility model. This ensures congruence and proximity between the party and the electorate. 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. There is no real electoral choice in this type of explanation, but it is based on our insertion in a social context. This is the idea of collective action, since our own contribution to an election or vote changes with the number of other citizens who vote. 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. The sociological model is somewhat the model that wants to emphasize this aspect. The system in the United States is bipartisan and the question asked was "Do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or otherwise? As the authors of The American Voter put A unified theory of voting: directional and proximity spatial models. By Phone: (386) 758-1026 ext. and voters who choose to use euristic shortcuts to solve the information problem. Prospective voting says that voters will listen to what candidates and parties have to say. 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. Three elements should be noted. But there are studies that also show that the causal relationship goes in the other direction. 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. In other words, party activists tend to be more extreme in their political attitudes than voters or party leaders. Lazarsfeld was the first to study voting behaviour empirically with survey data, based on individual data, thus differentiating himself from early studies at the aggregate level of electoral geography. Furthermore, "social characteristics determine political preferences". xb```f`` @f8F F'-pWs$I*Xe< *AA[;;8:::X"$C[6#,bH.vdM?2Zr@ ai,L 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. 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. In other words, social, spatial or group membership largely determines individual political actions. With regard to the limits, methodological individualism has often been evoked, saying that it is an exclusively micro-sociological perspective that neglects the effect of social structure. 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. _____ were the first widespread barriers to the franchise to be eliminated. For Iversen, distance is also important. 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 paper examines two models used in survey research to explain voting behavior and finds that both models may be more or less correct. 0000011193 00000 n What determines direction? 0000010337 00000 n Radical approach regards class-based (structural) model as outdated and insufficient to explain . 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. On the other hand, this is true for the directional model; they manage to perceive a policy direction. 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. 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. There has also been the criticism of abstention as the result of rational calculation. It is a very detailed literature today. They find that conscientious and neurotic people tend not to identify with a political party. We end up with a configuration where there is an electorate that is at the centre, there are party activists who are exercising the "voice" and who have access to the extreme, and there are party leaderships that are in between. The importance of symbols lies in what arouses emotions. We see the kinship of this model with the sociological model explaining that often they are put together. An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy. Journal of Political Economy, vol. 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. We worked with a sample of 516 Argentinean adults, aged 18 to 75. McElroy's connection to Vancouver didn't end there. those who inquire: they are willing to pay these costs. 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. Voters who rely on strong partisan identification do not need to go and do systematic voting or take one of the shortcuts. 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 concept and measurement of partisan identification as conceived by these researchers as applying to the bipartite system and therefore needs to be adapted to fit the multiparty and European system. Voting for a party and continuing to vote for such a party repeatedly makes it possible to develop an identification with that party which, in a way, then reinforces the electoral choice. As part of spatial theories of the vote, some theories consider the characteristics of candidates. Voters will vote for a party but that party is not necessarily the one with which they identify. 0000008661 00000 n This model of directional proximity with intensity illustrates what is called symbolic politics which is related to the problem of information. Some parties have short-term strategies for maximizing voting and others have long-term strategies for social mobilization. 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. 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. Voters try to maximize the usefulness of the vote, that is, they try to vote for the party that makes them more satisfied. Nevertheless, some of these spatial theories depart from this initial formulation. Fiorina reverses the question, in fact, partisan identification can result from something else and it also produces electoral choices. All parties that are in the same direction of the voter maximize the individual utility of that voter. 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. Voting is an instrument that serves us to achieve an objective. We have seen that at Downs, the role of ideology is fundamental and that ideology could function as a kind of shortcut. 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. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. Iversena proposed a way of classifying the different explanatory theories of voting that allow to add a very important element that has been neglected until now. the further a party moves in the same direction as the voter, the more likely it is to be chosen by that voter. Today, this may be less true, but until a certain point, there were relatively few empirical analyses based on the economic model of the vote. There are a whole bunch of individual characteristics related to the fact that one is more of a systematic voter of something else. 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. Discounting is saying that the voter does not fully believe what the parties say. 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. 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