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The idea of prospective voting is very demanding. We speak of cognitive preference between one's political preferences and the positions of the parties. (1949). European Journal of Political Research, 54(2), 197215. How to assess the position of different parties and candidates. There are also external factors that also need to be considered, such as the actions of the government, for example, voters are influenced by what the government has done. (Second edition.) The concept of electoral choice does not belong to the sociological model but rather to rationalist theories. 2, 1957, pp. 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. It is also often referred to as a point of indifference because there are places where the voter cannot decide. To summarize these approaches, there are four possible answers to the question of how voters decide to vote. 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. Here we see the key factors, namely electoral choice and, at the centre, the identification variable for a party, which depends on two types of factors, namely primary socialization and group membership. However, we see that this is not always true and that there are parties that propose more extreme policies that receive considerable electoral support. The idea is to see what are all the factors that explain the electoral choice. Prospective voting says that the evaluation is based on what the parties and candidates are going to say. The psycho-sociological model has its roots in Campell's work entitled The American Voter publi en 1960. Elections and voters: a comparative introduction. Finally, some studies show that high levels of education lead to weaker attachments to parties. to 1/n,and thus the expected utility of voting is proportional to N/n, which is approximately independent of the size of the electorate.3 In the basic rational-choice model of voting and political participation (see Blais 2000 for an overview and many references), the relative util-ity of voting, for a particular eligible voter, is: U = pB . 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. The theory of the economic model of the vote is also a model that allows predictions to be made about party behaviour. 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. On the basis of this analysis a behavioral model is constructed, which is then tested on data from a Dutch election survey. 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 is the idea of collective action, since our own contribution to an election or vote changes with the number of other citizens who vote. As for the intensity model, they manage to perceive something more, that is to say, not only a direction but an intensity through which a political party defends certain positions and goes in certain political directions. Many researchers have criticised the Downs proximity model in particular. and voters who choose to use euristic shortcuts to solve the information problem. 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. 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. Information is central to spatial theories, whereas in the psycho-sociological model, information is much less important. The intensity directional model adds an element that is related to the intensity with which candidates and political parties defend certain positions. There are different strategies that are studied in the literature. 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. Apart from the combined models, it can be thought that different models may explain differently according to historical moments and phases of a process of political alignment and misalignment just as models may better explain certain types of candidates or according to the profile and type of voters. Downs, Anthony. Suicide is a global public health problem. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. 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. There are a whole bunch of individual characteristics related to the fact that one is more of a systematic voter of something else. 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. 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. Voting behavior is a form of electoral behavior. It is possible to create a typology that distinguishes between four approaches crossing two important and crucial elements: "is voting spatial? Ideal point models assume that lawmakers and bills are represented as points in a latent space. 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. Several studies have shown that the very fact of voting for a party contributes to the development of a certain identification for that party. Here, preferences are endogenous and they can change. Distance is understood in the sense of the proximity model for whom voter preference and party position is also important. Discounting is saying that the voter does not fully believe what the parties say. This is the proximity model. 0000011193 00000 n [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. According to Merril and Grofman, one cannot determine whether one pure model is superior to another because there are methodological and data limitations. If we look at it a little more broadly, partisan identification can be seen as a kind of shortcut. 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. 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 organization is in crisis and no longer reflects our own needs. This is a very common and shared notion. 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. Studies have shown that, for example, outside the United States, a much larger proportion of voters who change their vote also change their partisan identification. We leave behind the idea of spatial theories that preferences are exogenous, that they are pre-existing and almost fixed. Otherwise, our usefulness as voters decreases as a party moves away, i.e. 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. One must assess the value of one's own participation and also assess the number of other citizens who will vote. 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. Proximity means the closeness of the voter's interests to the political proposals that are made with the parties. 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. How does partisan identification develop? does partisan identification work outside the United States? One of the merits, which can be found in Lazarsfeld's book entitled The People's Choice published in 1944 is that this model marks a turning point in the study of political behaviour. 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. 0000004336 00000 n 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. When we talk about the Downs model, we also talk about the proximity model, which is the idea of a rational economic mode based on utility maximization. In other words, there is a social type variable, a cultural type variable and a spatial type variable. 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. 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. 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. Voting is an instrument that serves us to achieve an objective. A corollary to this theory is that voters react more to the government than to the opposition because performance is evaluated and a certain state of the economy, for example, can be attributed to the performance of a government. 0000009473 00000 n It also proposes a reconceptualization of the concept of partisanship in order to integrate all relevant contributions of the . It has often been emphasized that this model and approach raises more questions than answers. Nevertheless, some of these spatial theories depart from this initial formulation. The second criticism is the lack of an adequate theory of preference formation. as a party's position moves away from our political preferences. 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. This study presents an automated and accurate . Often, in Anglo-Saxon literature, this model is referred to as the party identification model. 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. 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. Cross-pressure theory entered political science via the analysis of voting behavior at Columbia University (Lazarsfeld et al. Merrill, Samuel, and Bernard Grofman. We are not ignoring the psychological model, which focuses on the identification people have with parties without looking at the parties. in what is commonly known as the Columbia school of thought, posited that contextual factors influence the development . Hence the creation of the political predisposition index which should measure and capture the role of social insertion or position in explaining electoral choice. the maximum utility is reached at the line level. That discounting depends on where the policy is right now in relation to what the party is promising, and that is the directional element. Hinich and Munger say the opposite, saying that on the basis of their idea of the left-right positioning of the parties, they somehow deduce what will be or what is the position of these parties on the different issues. On the other hand, ideologically extreme voters try to influence party policies through party activism (voice). [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. The term "group" can mean different things, which can be an ethnic group or a social class. Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there has been a strong development of directional models. Ideology is a means of predicting and inferring political positions during an election campaign. A set of theories has given some answers. These theories are called spatial theories of the vote because they are projected. Voting for a candidate from one party in one race and for the other party's candidate in another race is known as. In summary, it can be said that in the economic model of voting, the political preferences of voters on different issues, are clearly perceived by the voters themselves which is the idea that the voter must assess his own interest, he must clearly perceive what are the political preferences of voters. xref 65, no. This is something that remains difficult in theory, we don't know how much the voter will discount. The system in the United States is bipartisan and the question asked was "Do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or otherwise? This approach emphasizes a central variable which is that of partisan identification, which is a particular political attitude towards a party. the earlier Columbia studies, the Michigan election studies were based upon national survey samples. We see the kinship of this model with the sociological model explaining that often they are put together. The starting point is that there is a congruence of attitudes between party leaders and voters due to the possibility of exit for voters when the party no longer represents them (exit). Psychological Models of American Voting Behavior* DAVID KNOKE, Indiana University ABSTRACT A path model of the presidential vote involving social variables, party identification, issue orientations, . Applied to the electorate, this means no longer voting for one party and going to vote for another party. In the literature, we often talk about the economic theory of voting. 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. 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. 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. It is an explanation that is completely outside the logic of proximity and the spatial logic of voting. We talk about the electoral market in the media or the electoral supply. 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. xxxiii, 178. All of these factors and their relationships have to be taken into account, but at the centre is always the partisan attachment. 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". In the study of electoral behaviour, there is a simple distinction between what is called prospective voting and retrospective voting. There are other cleavages that cut across Republicans and Democrats that should be taken into account to explain the pattern. 0000005382 00000 n There have been several phases of misalignment. If we accept this premise, how will we position ourselves? They are both proximity choices and directional choices with intensity, since there are voters who may choose intensity and others who may choose direction. The economic model of the vote puts the notion of electoral choice back at the centre. Numerous studies examine voting behavior based on the formal theoretical predictions of the spatial utility model. Economic theories of voting explain both voter turnout (1) and electoral choice (2). For Przeworski and Sprague, there may be another logic that is not one of maximizing the electorate in the short term but one of mobilizing the electorate in the medium and long term. 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. The political consciousness of individuals is based on social experiences and has little weight outside these experiences. Parties do not try to maximize the vote, but create images of society, forge identities, mobilize commitments for the future. 0000002253 00000 n This jargon comes from this type of explanation. There are two slightly different connotations. The theory of partisan competition was completely eliminated by the other types of explanations. The idea was that there were two possible responses that are put in place by members of that organization: one of "exit", to withdraw, to go to another organization. Prospective voting says that voters will listen to what candidates and parties have to say. A distinction is often made between two types of voters and votes between the: There are these two types and a whole literature on the different types of euristics that can be set up. Personality traits and party identification over time. The reference work is The Peoples Choice published in 1948 by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet. Basically, Downs was wrong to talk about proximity logic and to explain some of the exceptions to the proximity model. 5. It is because we are rational, and if we are rational, rationality means maximizing our usefulness on the basis of the closeness we can have with a party. On the other hand, this is true for the directional model; they manage to perceive a policy direction. 0000006260 00000 n The presupposition is that voter preferences are not exogenous but are endogenous - they change within the framework of an electoral process. [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, in rationalist approaches, shortcuts are cognitive shortcuts. those who inquire: they are willing to pay these costs. Positioning on a left-right scale is related to this type of theory. Symbolic politics says that what is important in politics are not necessarily the rationally perceived positions or the political positions of the parties but what the political symbols evoke in relation to certain issues. 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. 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. 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. Later, their analysis saw that party identification and attachment was the most common factor. In this case, there may be other factors that can contribute to the voter choice; and all parties that are on the other side of the neutral point minimize the voter's utility, so the voter will not vote for that party all other things being equal. 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 explanatory factors and aspects highlighted by these different models are always taken into account. 1948, Berelson et . 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. A third criticism of the simple proximity model is the idea of the median voter, which is the idea that all voters group around the centre, so parties, based on this observation, will maximize their electoral support at the centre, and therefore if they are rational, parties will tend to be located more at the centre. These studies model individual utility from the election of a preferred party or candidate as decreasing as the alternative deviates from one's ideal point, but differ as to whether this loss should be modeled linearly or quadratically. It is the state of the economy that will decide who will win the election or not. The degree of political sophistication, political knowledge, interest in politics varies from voter to voter. 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 the literature, spatial theories of voting are often seen as one of the main developments of the last thirty years which has been precisely the development of directional models since the proximity model dates back to the 1950s. startxref 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. McClung Lee, A. 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. The assumption is that mobilizing an electorate is done by taking clear positions and not a centrist position. The spatial theory of the vote postulates that the electoral choice is made in the maximization of individual utility. In both The People's Choice (Lazarsfeld et al., 1944) and Voting (Berelson et al., 1954), the authors is partisan identification one-dimensional? This model predicts a convergence of party program positions around two distinct positions, there are two types of convergence. 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 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. 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. p. 31). Furthermore, "social characteristics determine political preferences". 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. They may rely less on their partisan loyalties, so their vote may be explained less by their social base and more by their choice among an offer that is the economic model. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. 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 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. This identification is seen as contributing to an individual's self-image. 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. 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. The second question is according to which criteria to determine the individual utility of voters. The initial formulation of the model is based on the Downs theory in An Economic Theory of Democracy publi en 1957. These theories are the retrospective voting theories and the theories of ideological space. While in the United States, several studies have shown that partisan identification is an important explanatory power on electoral choice, in other contexts this is less true. 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. $2.75. Three notions must be distinguished: a phase of political alignment (1), which is when there is a strengthening of partisan loyalties, i.e. The psycho-sociological model says that it is because this inking allows identification with a party which in turn influences political attitudes and therefore predispositions with regard to a given object, with regard to the candidate or the party, and this is what ultimately influences the vote. . 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