(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. To summarize these approaches, there are four possible answers to the question of how voters decide to vote. There may be one that is at the centre, but there are also others that are discussed. 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. The advantage of the intensity directional model is that it goes in a more intense direction, i.e. Symbols evoke emotions. One can draw a kind of parallel with a loss of importance of the strength of partisan identification and also of the explanatory power of partisan identification. Positioning on a left-right scale is related to this type of theory. For Lazarsfeld, we think politically how we are socially, there is not really the idea of electoral choice. Voters calculate the cost of voting. The theory of the economic model of the vote is also a model that allows predictions to be made about party behaviour. There is a kind of heterogeneity of voters. 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. 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. The idea is that a party is ready to lose an election in order to give itself the means to win it later by giving itself time to form an electorate. 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. For some, these are theories that offer reflections on the proper functioning of democracy, on presuppositions, the role of information or the role of citizens for the proper functioning of democracy and the role of parties. The second 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. However, this is empirically incorrect. For some, this model overestimates the capabilities that voters have. Partisan attachment is at the centre of the graph influencing opinions on certain issues being discussed or the attitudes of certain candidates. Information is central to spatial theories, whereas in the psycho-sociological model, information is much less important. By Web: Vote-By-Mail Web Request. Ideology can also be in relation to another dimension, for example between egalitarian and libertarian ideology. This has created a research paradigm which is perhaps the dominant paradigm today. There are also intermediate variables that relate to loyalties to a certain group or sense of belonging. Several studies show that the impact of partisan identification varies greatly from one context to another. There are different types of costs that this model considers and that need to be taken into account and in particular two types of costs which are the costs of going to vote (1) but above all, there are the costs of information (2) which are the costs of obtaining this information since in this model which postulates to choose a party on the basis of an evaluation of the different propositions of information which is available, given these basic postulates, the transparency of information and therefore the costs of information are crucial. 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. 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. The specified . What are the criteria for determining the individual usefulness of voters? The idea of prospective voting is very demanding. A lawmaker's (stochastic) voting behavior is characterized by the relationship between her position in this space and the bill's position [1 . What interests us is that the idea of issue voting is fundamental to spatial theories of voting. It is a third explanation given by Przeworski and Sprague in their theory of partisan competition, also known as the theory of mobilization of the electorate. 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. 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. 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 translation of personal preference into a voluntary action designed to influence public policy This is the idea that gave rise to the development of directional models, which is that, according to Downs and those who have followed him, because there is transparency of information, voters can very well see what the political platforms of the parties or candidates are. 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". Finally, there is an instrumental approach to information and voting. 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. Voters assess the utility income of parties and candidates. The reference work is The People's Choice published in 1948 by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet. We must also take into account other socializing agents that can socialize us and make us develop a form of partisan identification. 0000001124 00000 n Prospective voting is based on election promises and retrospective voting is based on past performance. 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. Lazarsfeld's book created this research paradigm. On the other hand, ideologically extreme voters try to influence party policies through party activism (voice). 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. Four landmark studies connected with the presidential elections of 1940, 1948, 1952, and 1956 mark the establishment of scholarly survey-based research on voting behavior (Rossi 1959). The Logics of Electoral Politics. We want to know how and why a voter will vote for a certain party. The personality model highlights the importance of childhood experiences for political behavior and belief in adulthood; the sociological model highlights the importance of primary and interest . The government is blamed for the poor state of the economy. Numbers abound, since we have seen that, in the end, both models systematically have a significant effect. Among these bridges, one of the first bridges between the psycho-sociological voting theory and the rationalist theories was made by Fiorina because he considers partisan identification to be an important element in explaining electoral choice. 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. 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 voters choose the candidate whose positions will match their preferences. it takes a political position that evokes the idea of symbolic politics in a more salient way. Since the economic crisis, there has been an increasing focus on the economic crisis and economic conditions and how that can explain electoral volatility and electoral change. When you vote, you are taking your personal time and effort to advance the collective good, without any guarantee of personal rewardthe very heart of what it means to be altruistic. The heterogeneity of the electorate and voters must be taken into account. In the Downs-Hirschman model, the vote is spatial in the sense of proximity and preferences are exogenous; on the other hand, in the directional theories of Rabinovirz and Macdonal in particular, we remain in the idea of the exogeneity of preferences but the vote is not spatial in the sense of proximity. 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. The distance must be assessed on the basis of what the current policy is. 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 other words, they propose something quite ecumenical that combines directional and proximity models. Merrill, Samuel, and Bernard Grofman. "The answer is "yes", as postulated by spatial theories, or "no", as stated by Przeworski and Sprague, for example. 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. 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. This idea of an issue was not invented by the proponents of the economic model of voting but was already present in the psycho-sociological model. Sometimes, indeed often, people combine the first two models incorporating the psycho-sociological model on the basis that the Michigan model is just an extension of the Columbia model that helps explain some things that the Columbia model cannot explain. Four questions around partisan identification. %%EOF 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. However, we see that this is not always true and that there are parties that propose more extreme policies that receive considerable electoral support. That is called the point of indifference. 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. Models of Voting Behavior Models of Voting Behavior Dr. Bradley Best Asst. It is quite interesting to see the bridges that can be built between theories that may seem different. Proximity means the closeness of the voter's interests to the political proposals that are made with the parties. Proximity models will give certain proximity related answers and the other more recent models offer an alternative answer based on certain criticisms. This model relies heavily on the ability of voters to assess and calculate their own interests and all the costs associated with the action of going to the polls. On the other hand, in rationalist approaches, shortcuts are cognitive shortcuts. 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. 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. 65, no. There are two slightly different connotations. 0000000016 00000 n From that point on, there has been the development of a whole body of literature on political psychology. The anomaly is that there is a majority of the electorate around the centre, but there are parties at the extremes that can even capture a large part of the preferences of the electorate. Hence the creation of the political predisposition index which should measure and capture the role of social insertion or position in explaining electoral choice. it is an element of direction and not an element of distance or proximity that counts. Prospective voting says that voters will listen to what candidates and parties have to say. 0000000929 00000 n Often, in Anglo-Saxon literature, this model is referred to as the party identification model. We have seen that at Downs, the role of ideology is fundamental and that ideology could function as a kind of shortcut. McElroy's connection to Vancouver didn't end there. 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. The political consciousness of individuals is based on social experiences and has little weight outside these experiences. The system in the United States is bipartisan and the question asked was "Do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or otherwise? 0000009473 00000 n For Iversen, distance is also important. The psycho-sociological model, also known as the Michigan model, can be represented graphically or schematically. xb```f`` @f8F F'-pWs$I*Xe< *AA[;;8:::X"$C[6#,bH.vdM?2Zr@ ai,L Within the ambit of such a more realistic, limited-rational model of human behavior, mitigation outcomes from . 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. 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. Pp. Political parties can make choices that are not choices to maximize the electorate, unlike spatial theories, where parties seek to maximize their short-term electoral support in an election. 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. Has the partisan identification weakened? Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there has been a strong development of directional models. The idea is to see what are all the factors that explain the electoral choice. The reference work is The Peoples Choice published in 1948 by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet. Some parties have short-term strategies for maximizing voting and others have long-term strategies for social mobilization. Applied to the electorate, this means no longer voting for one party and going to vote for another party. Moreover, there are analogies that are made even explicitly with the idea of the market. Prospective voting says that the evaluation is based on what the parties and candidates are going to say. The ideological space can be defined as a left-right ideological space but can also be defined more precisely in relation to certain issues. There are other cleavages that cut across Republicans and Democrats that should be taken into account to explain the pattern. 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. It is also possible to add that the weight of partisan identification varies from one voter to another. Elections and voters: a comparative introduction. In Personality traits and party identification over time published in 2014 by Bakker, Hopmann and Persson, the authors attempt to explain partisan identification. is partisan identification one-dimensional? Distance must be taken into account and the idea of mobilizing the electorate must be taken into account. 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. A rather subjective and almost sentimental citizen is placed at the centre of the analysis. 0000007057 00000 n Curiously, the intensity directional model that adds an element to the simple directional model chronologically precedes the simple directional model. Voting for a candidate from one party in one race and for the other party's candidate in another race is known as. It rejects the notion that voting behavior is largely determined by class affiliation or class socialization. This means that we are not necessarily going to listen to all the specific arguments of the different parties. Discounting is saying that the voter does not fully believe what the parties say. The degree of political sophistication, political knowledge, interest in politics varies from voter to voter. 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. the maximum utility is reached at the line level. 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. 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. Even more plausibly, election campaigns are built around several issues. 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. 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. Voters vote for the candidate or party closest to their own position which is the proximity model. McClung Lee, A. There is a direct link between social position and voting. It is the idea of when does one or the other of these different theories provide a better explanation according to periods of political alignment or misalignment. 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). Thus, they were well suited not only to develop and test theories of voting behavior, but also to provide an historical record of the considerations shaping the outcomes of specific national elections. The psycho-sociological model is intended as a development that wants to respond to this criticism. 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. [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]. 0000004336 00000 n One possible strategy to reduce costs is to base oneself on ideology. 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. This ensures congruence and proximity between the party and the electorate. and voters who choose to use euristic shortcuts to solve the information problem. It is the state of the economy that will decide who will win the election or not. For the sociological model we have talked about the index of political predisposition with the variables of socioeconomic, religious and spatial status. 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. the difference in the cost-benefit ratio that different parties give. We must also, and above all, look at the links between types of factors. 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. How does partisan identification develop? There has been a lot of criticism that has allowed the idea of issue voting to develop in a rationalist context and models. Ideology is a means of predicting and inferring political positions during an election campaign. 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. 1.2 Psychology and behavior 9 1.3 Voting behavior and action 13 1.4 Strategies of explanation 14 1.5 Research questions and outline 16 2 The empirical analysis of voting action 19 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 The Wrzburg school 21 2.3 Lazarsfeld and the empirical analysis of action 23 2.4 The Columbia approach to voting action 26 That is what is called the proximity vote, that is, having a preference over a policy. Fiorina reverses the question, in fact, partisan identification can result from something else and it also produces electoral choices. Grofman's idea is to say that the voter discounts what the candidates say (discounting) based on the difference between current policy and what the party says it will do or promise. 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. Voters who vote against the party with which they identify keep their partisan identification. Ecological regression represents one extreme: the presumption that voting behavior changes systematically across groups but only changes randomly, if at all, within groups. Fiorina proposed an alternative way to explain why voters vote for one party rather than another, or a different answer to how the position of different candidate parties can be assessed. This model of directional proximity with intensity illustrates what is called symbolic politics which is related to the problem of information. The psycho-sociological model initiated the national election studies and created a research paradigm that remains one of the two dominant research paradigms today and ultimately contributed to the creation of electoral psychology. On the other hand, the intensity directional model better explains the electoral choices of candidates who are not currently in power. 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. 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. 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. 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. It is a very detailed literature today. 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. Certain developments in the theory of the psycho-sociological model have in fact provided answers to these criticisms. The importance of symbols lies in what arouses emotions. There are two important issues in relation to the spatial theory of voting. The sociological model obviously has a number of limitations like any voting model or any set of social science theories. 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. xxxiii, 178. Parties do not try to maximize the vote, but create images of society, forge identities, mobilize commitments for the future. 2, 1957, pp. 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. 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). In this model, importance is given to primary socialization. How was that measured? 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. Or party closest to their own position which is perhaps the dominant paradigm today is! They identify keep their partisan identification varies greatly from one voter to voter economic model of the influencing... 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