<]>> Moreover, there are analogies that are made even explicitly with the idea of the market. 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. It is also possible to add that the weight of partisan identification varies from one voter to another. This is an alternative way which is another answer to the question of how to evaluate the position of different parties and candidates. 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. 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. 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. 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. LAZARSFELD, PAUL F., BERNARD BERELSON, and HAZEL GAUDET. The idea of prospective voting is very demanding. 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. The basic idea is somewhat the same, namely that it is a way that voters have at their disposal, a euristic and cognitive shortcut that voters have at their disposal to deal with the problem of complex information. In other words, they propose something quite ecumenical that combines directional and proximity models. There are two variations. On the other hand, in rationalist approaches, shortcuts are cognitive shortcuts. in what is commonly known as the Columbia school of thought, posited that contextual factors influence the development . 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. 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. 0000010337 00000 n Several studies have shown that the very fact of voting for a party contributes to the development of a certain identification for that party. Numbers abound, since we have seen that, in the end, both models systematically have a significant effect. 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. 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. This refers to the Michigan model, the psycho-sociological model. In both The People's Choice (Lazarsfeld et al., 1944) and Voting (Berelson et al., 1954), the authors In the retrospective model, some researchers have proposed an alternative way of viewing partisan identification as being determined by the position voters take on issues. Video transcript. There are certain types of factors that influence other types of factors and that in turn influence other types of factors and that ultimately help explain the idea of the causal funnel of electoral choice. According to Merril and Grofman, one cannot determine whether one pure model is superior to another because there are methodological and data limitations. Several studies show that the impact of partisan identification varies greatly from one context to another. Prospective voting says that voters will listen to what candidates and parties have to say. So there is an overestimation in this model with respect to capacity. In Personality traits and party identification over time published in 2014 by Bakker, Hopmann and Persson, the authors attempt to explain partisan identification. [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. 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. 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. 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. xref Hinich and Munger take up the Downs idea but turn it around a bit. The extent to which the usefulness of voters' choices varies from candidate to candidate, but also from voter to voter. 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". Has the partisan identification weakened? 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. 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 Person: 971 W Duval St. Ste. it is an element of direction and not an element of distance or proximity that counts. There are two slightly different connotations. 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. 0000007835 00000 n 102 Lake City, FL 32055 OR 17579 SW State Road 47 Fort White, FL 32038. Information is central to spatial theories, whereas in the psycho-sociological model, information is much less important. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. 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). This article reviews the main theoretical models that explain the electoral behavior sociological model of voting behavior, psychosocial model of voting behavior and rational. 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. These authors have tried to say that the different explanatory theories of the vote can be more or less explanatory in the sense of having more or less importance of explanatory power depending on the phases in which one is in a process of alignment and misalignment. 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. Merrill, Samuel, and Bernard Grofman. This model predicts a convergence of party program positions around two distinct positions, there are two types of convergence. 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. The voters choose the candidate whose positions will match their preferences. the translation of personal preference into a voluntary action designed to influence public policy 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. It is possible to create a typology that distinguishes between four approaches crossing two important and crucial elements: "is voting spatial? There are different types of individuals who take different kinds of shortcuts or not, who vote systematically or not, and so on. It is easier to look at what someone has done than to evaluate the promises they made. Four questions around partisan identification. They find that conscientious and neurotic people tend not to identify with a political party. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. It also proposes a reconceptualization of the concept of partisanship in order to integrate all relevant contributions of the . 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. One important element of this model must be highlighted in relation to the others. Direction ("Who votes for whom?") 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. However, this is empirically incorrect. - What we're going to do in this video is start to think about voting behavior, and in particular, we're going to start classifying motivations for why someone votes for a particular candidate, and I'm going to introduce some terms that will impress your political science friends, but you'll see that they map two things that . 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. These are voters who proceed by systematic voting. In the spatial theories of the vote, we see the strategic link between a party's supply and a demand from voters or electors. These are possible answers more to justify and account for this anomaly. 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. Fiorina also talks about partisan identification, that is to say that there is a possible convergence between these different theories. On the other hand, the intensity directional model better explains the electoral choices of candidates who are not currently in power. Proximity means the closeness of the voter's interests to the political proposals that are made with the parties. Many researchers have criticised the Downs proximity model in particular. This is especially important when applying this type of reasoning empirically. What explains historical variation in voter turnout? The Peoples Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign. 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. It is quite interesting to see the bridges that can be built between theories that may seem different. Three Models of Voting Behavior. 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. In other words, in this retrospective assessment, the economic situation of the country plays a crucial role. The psycho-sociological model has its roots in Campell's work entitled The American Voter publi en 1960. It is a small bridge between different explanations. The government is blamed for the poor state of the economy. IVERSEN, T. (1994). 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. 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. 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. a new model of legislative behavior that captures when and how lawmakers vote differently than expected. Elections and voters: a comparative introduction. Basic Idea What you are vote choice ; Key foundational studies ; Lazarsfeld, Berelson, Gaudet (1944) The Peoples Choice Berelson, Lazarsfeld, McPhee (1954) Voting So there is this empirical anomaly where there is a theory that presupposes and tries to explain the electoral choices but also the positions of the parties in a logic of proximity to the centre of the political spectrum, but on the other hand there is the empirical observation that is the opposite and that sees parties and voters located elsewhere. There is the idea of the interaction between a political demand and a political offer proposed by the different candidates during an election or a vote. 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. 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 The first question is how to assess the position of the different parties and candidates, since we start from the idea of projecting voters' political preferences and party projections onto a map. There are other variants or models that try to accommodate this complexity. Radical approach regards class-based (structural) model as outdated and insufficient to explain . We need to find identification measures adapted to the European context, which the researchers have done. Symbols evoke emotions. 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. 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. 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. 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. The same can be said of the directional model with intensity. HUr0c:*+ $ifrh b98ih+I?v1q7q>. 1948, Berelson et . Moreover, retrospective voting can also be seen as a shortcut. 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. startxref Finally, they can vote for the candidate who is most likely in the voters' perception to change things in a way or in a way that leaves them the most satisfied. For the sociological model we have talked about the index of political predisposition with the variables of socioeconomic, religious and spatial status. The simple proximity model is that the voter will vote for the party or parties that are in the same direction. Hirschman wanted to explain what happens in organizations when they enter a situation of crisis or decline. In a phase of alignment, this would be the psycho-sociological model, i.e. 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. The sociological model is somewhat the model that wants to emphasize this aspect. 0000007057 00000 n In other words, party activists tend to be more extreme in their political attitudes than voters or party leaders. Here, preferences are endogenous and they can change. 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. 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. If we take into account Przeworski and Sprague's idea that there can be a mobilization of the electorate in a logic of endogenous preference and non-maximization of the utility of voters. There is an opposite reasoning. 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. Otherwise, our usefulness as voters decreases as a party moves away, i.e. These authors find with panel data that among their confirmed hypotheses that extroverted people tend to have a strong and stable partisan identification. As part of spatial theories of the vote, some theories consider the characteristics of candidates. The theories that are supposed to explain the electoral choice also explain at the same time the electoral participation in particular with the sociological model. 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. 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). La dernire modification de cette page a t faite le 11 novembre 2020 00:26. _____ were the first widespread barriers to the franchise to be eliminated. Economic theories of voting explain both voter turnout (1) and electoral choice (2). For Iversen, distance is also important. It is a moment when social cleavages directly influence the vote in this approach and therefore the sociological model, perhaps, at that moment, better explains the vote. A distinction is made between the sociological model of voting from the Columbia School, which refers to the university where this model was developed. 0000011193 00000 n If someone positions himself as a left-wing or right-wing voter, the parties are positioned on an ideological level. 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. Models of Voting Behavior Models of Voting Behavior Dr. Bradley Best Asst. 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. Harrop, Martin, and William L. Miller. The spatial theory of the vote postulates that the electoral choice is made in the maximization of individual utility. This diagram shows the process of misalignment with changes in the generational structure and changes in the social structure that create political misalignment. 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. Numerous studies have found that voting behavior and political acts can be "contagious . But more generally, when there is a campaign, the issues are discussed. This model explains for Downs why we abstain. In the literature, we often talk about the economic theory of voting. 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. 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. On the other hand, this is true for the directional model; they manage to perceive a policy direction. For Lazarsfeld, we think politically how we are socially, there is not really the idea of electoral choice. 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