One possible strategy to reduce costs is to base oneself on ideology. So, we are going to the extremes precisely because we are trying to mobilize an electorate. An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy. Journal of Political Economy, vol. 135150. Here, preferences are endogenous and they can change. changes in voting behaviour from one election to the next. 0000000636 00000 n The psycho-sociological model has its roots in Campell's work entitled The American Voter publi en 1960. This table shows that for quite some time now there has been a strong decline in partisan identification. %%EOF 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. Voters calculate the cost of voting. In the study of electoral behaviour, there is a simple distinction between what is called prospective voting and retrospective voting. 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. The aspect is based on the idea that there is an information problem that represents a difficulty and costs that voters must pay to gather information and to become informed about an election. 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. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. Economic theories of voting explain both voter turnout (1) and electoral choice (2). That is what is called the proximity vote, that is, having a preference over a policy. 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 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. 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. As the authors of The American Voter put Today, in the literature, we talk about the economic vote in a narrower and slightly different sense, namely that the electoral choice is strongly determined by the economic situation and by the policies that the government puts in place in particular to deal with situations of economic difficulty. It is possible to attribute some merits and some criticisms to this model at least in its initial formulation. This has created a research paradigm which is perhaps the dominant paradigm today. We need to find identification measures adapted to the European context, which the researchers have done. Fiorina's theory of retrospective voting is very simple. Prospective voting says that voters will listen to what candidates and parties have to say. There has also been the criticism of abstention as the result of rational calculation. There are two important issues in relation to the spatial theory of voting. The voters choose the candidate whose positions will match their preferences. The extent to which the usefulness of voters' choices varies from candidate to candidate, but also from voter to voter. 0000010337 00000 n 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. Then they evaluate their own position in relation to the issues and they do the same operation positioning themselves on this left-right axis. It is also often referred to as a point of indifference because there are places where the voter cannot decide. Nevertheless, both models may be more or less correct. For many, voting is a civic duty. Ideology is to be understood as a way of simplifying our world in relation to the problem of information. These explanations are known as the Columbia Model and the Michigan Model, and describing these two . A distinction is made between the sociological model of voting from the Columbia School, which refers to the university where this model was developed. Much of the work in electoral behaviour draws on this thinking. 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. Parties do not try to maximize the vote, but create images of society, forge identities, mobilize commitments for the future. This is related to its variation in space and time. - 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 . Voters vote for the candidate or party closest to their own position which is the proximity model. Basic Idea What you are vote choice ; Key foundational studies ; Lazarsfeld, Berelson, Gaudet (1944) The Peoples Choice Berelson, Lazarsfeld, McPhee (1954) Voting "i.e., if it is proximity, it is 'yes', otherwise it is 'no' and therefore directional; 'are the preferences of the actors exogenous? The role of the media and campaigns simplifies information by summarizing it. Certain developments in the theory of the psycho-sociological model have in fact provided answers to these criticisms. 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 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. In the sociological and psycho-sociological model, there was no place for ideology, that's another thing that counts, on the other hand, in economic theories, spatial theories and Downs' theory of the economic vote, ideology is important. Otherwise, our usefulness as voters decreases as a party moves away, i.e. However, we see that this is not always true and that there are parties that propose more extreme policies that receive considerable electoral support. Professor Political Science Buena Vista University Two basic concerns: Turnout ("Who votes?") Key questions: What are the characteristics and attitudes of voters vs. nonvoters? LAZARSFELD, PAUL F., BERNARD BERELSON, and HAZEL GAUDET. In Personality traits and party identification over time published in 2014 by Bakker, Hopmann and Persson, the authors attempt to explain partisan identification. There are other theories that highlight the impact of economic conditions and how voters compare different election results in their electoral choices, which refers to economic voting in the strict sense of the term. An important factor is the role of political campaigns in influencing the vote. Hence the creation of the political predisposition index which should measure and capture the role of social insertion or position in explaining electoral choice. 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. There was a whole series of critics who said that if it's something rational, there's a problem with the way democracy works. The intensity directional model adds an element that is related to the intensity with which candidates and political parties defend certain positions. 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. 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. However, this is empirically incorrect. 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. There are also studies that show that the more educated change less often from one party to another. We are looking at the interaction. Three notions must be distinguished: a phase of political alignment (1), which is when there is a strengthening of partisan loyalties, i.e. These theories are called spatial theories of the vote because they are projected. It is a rather descriptive model, at least in its early stages. 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. In other words, party activists tend to be more extreme in their political attitudes than voters or party leaders. There are several theories emphasizing different factors which may shape citizens' voting behavior. The organization is in crisis and no longer reflects our own needs. Moreover, retrospective voting can also be seen as a shortcut. 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. 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. p. 31). The degree of political sophistication, political knowledge, interest in politics varies from voter to voter. This article reviews the main theoretical models that explain the electoral behavior sociological model of voting behavior, psychosocial model of voting behavior and rational choice theory , stressing the continuity and theoretical complementarity between them. It is an explanation that is completely outside the logic of proximity and the spatial logic of voting. According to Downs, based on the prospective assessment that voters make of the position that voters have and their position on various issues, voters arrive at and operate this shortcut by situating and bringing parties back to an ideological dimension that may be a left-right dimension but may also be another one. So, voters evaluate the positions of the parties and from these positions, this party is a left-wing party and this party is a right-wing party. 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. 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 '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. Proximity can be calculated on the basis of the programmes and actual positions declared by the parties or on the basis of a discount factor, a perception factor or a difference factor according to the discount model. There are different strategies that are studied in the literature. [1] According to Fiorina, identification with a party is not necessarily the result of a long phase of socialization, but it is also the result of evaluations of a certain party, it is the fact of voting for that party that makes it possible to develop a partisan identification. What determines direction? There are two slightly different connotations. This model predicts a convergence of party program positions around two distinct positions, there are two types of convergence. 0000005382 00000 n One important element of this model must be highlighted in relation to the others. it is easier to change parties from one election to the next; a phase of realignment (3), which consists of creating new partisan loyalties. For most theories, and in particular Matthews' Simple Directional Model theory, the neutral point determines direction. Voters who want their ballot mailed to an address that is not their address on record will be required to submit their request in writing. 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. The economic model of the vote puts the notion of electoral choice back at the centre. Finally, there is an instrumental approach to information and voting. 0000006260 00000 n <]>> [15] Then we'll look at the space theories of the vote. There are several responses to criticisms of the proximity model. 65, no. 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. The system in the United States is bipartisan and the question asked was "Do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or otherwise? 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. 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. 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. 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. $2.75. Theoretically, it is possible to have as many dimensions as there are issues being discussed in an election campaign. The simple proximity model is that the voter will vote for the party or parties that are in the same direction. Rationalist theories and spatial models of the vote have had the very beneficial relationship of putting precisely the free choice of voters at the centre of analyses. is partisan identification one-dimensional? 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. Merrill, Samuel, and Bernard Grofman. 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. 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. All of these factors and their relationships have to be taken into account, but at the centre is always the partisan attachment. The same can be said of the directional model with intensity. The basic assumption is that voters decide primarily on the basis of ideologies and not on the basis of specific positions on issues. Positioning on a left-right scale is related to this type of theory. Many researchers have criticised the Downs proximity model in particular. [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]. 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. To summarize these approaches, there are four possible answers to the question of how voters decide to vote. . Pages pour les contributeurs dconnects en savoir plus. It is a small bridge between different explanations. 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. Four questions around partisan identification. Often, in Anglo-Saxon literature, this model is referred to as the party identification model. What explains historical variation in voter turnout? the earlier Columbia studies, the Michigan election studies were based upon national survey samples. 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. This article reviews the main theoretical models that explain the electoral behavior sociological model of voting behavior, psychosocial model of voting behavior and rational. A rather subjective and almost sentimental citizen is placed at the centre of the analysis. 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. This is something that remains difficult in theory, we don't know how much the voter will discount. It was this model that proposed that abstention can be the result of a purely rational calculation. There may be one that is at the centre, but there are also others that are discussed. At the basis of the reflection of directional models, and in particular of directional models with intensity, there is what is called symbolic politics. But more generally, when there is a campaign, the issues are discussed. There has been the whole emergence of the rational actor, which is the vote in relation to issues, which is not something that comes simply from our affective identification with a party, but there is a whole reflection that the voter makes in terms of cost-benefit calculations. This model shows that there is more than political identities, partisan identification and social inking. 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. 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. 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. 0000011193 00000 n Spatial theories of voting are nothing other than what we have seen so far with regard to the economic model of voting. party loyalties are freed from their social base and thus these party identifications are formed and crystallized. This means that we are not necessarily going to listen to all the specific arguments of the different parties. So there are four main ways. Proximity models will give certain proximity related answers and the other more recent models offer an alternative answer based on certain criticisms. Since the idea is to calculate the costs and benefits of voting for one party rather than the other, therefore, each party brings us some utility income. This identification is seen as contributing to an individual's self-image. 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. Partisan attachment is at the centre of the graph influencing opinions on certain issues being discussed or the attitudes of certain candidates. According to Merril and Grofman, one cannot determine whether one pure model is superior to another because there are methodological and data limitations. Is partisan identification one-dimensional? 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. 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. It is also possible to add that the weight of partisan identification varies from one voter to another. . 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. There is also the economic vote, which is the role of the economy. 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. Thus, voters find it easier to assess performance than declared plans during an election campaign. Another possible strategy is to rely on the judgment of others such as opinion leaders. The utility function of the simple proximity model appears, i.e. It is an answer that remains faithful to the postulates of Downs' theory and the proximity model. . European Journal of Political Research, 54(2), 197215. Numerous studies examine voting behavior based on the formal theoretical predictions of the spatial utility model. 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. What we see here in relation to the sociological model and that these variables highlighted by the sociological model such as socialization, inking or social position play a role but only indirectly. Linked to this, it is important to look at individual data empirically as well. 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. The problem of information is crucial in the spatial theories of voting and who would need an answer to fully understand these different theories. However, he conceives the origin and function of partisan identification in a different way from what we have seen before. 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 . There are two variations. 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. The idea is that it is in circles of interpersonal relations even if more modern theories of opinion leaders look at actors outside the personal circle. 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. how does partisan identification develop? Three elements should be noted. 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. 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 image that an individual has of himself in this perspective is also the result of this identification. The scientific study of voting behavior is marked by three major research schools: the sociological model, often identified as School of Columbia, with the main reference in Applied Bureau of Social Research of Columbia University, whose work begins with the publication of the book The Peoples Choice (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, & Gaudet, 1944) and This is the median voter theory. Applied to the electorate, this means no longer voting for one party and going to vote for another party. 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 Logics of Electoral Politics. 3105. 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 limitations are the explanation of partisan identification, which is that the model has been criticized because it explains or does not explain too much about where partisan identification comes from except to say that it is the result of primary socialization. Some have another way of talking about convergences and showing how the theories explaining the vote can be reconciled with the process of political misalignment. The scientific study of voting behavior is marked by three major research schools: the sociological model, often identified as School of Columbia, with the main reference in Applied Bureau of Social Research of Columbia University, whose work begins with the publication of the book The People's Choice (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, & Gaudet, 1944) It rejects the notion that voting behavior is largely determined by class affiliation or class socialization. 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. 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. The basic assumptions of the economic model of the vote are threefold: selfishness, which is the fact that voters act according to their individual interests and not according to their sense of belonging to a group or their attachment to a party. Later, their analysis saw that party identification and attachment was the most common factor. The original measurement was very simple being based on two questions which are a scale with a question about leadership. By Phone: (386) 758-1026 ext. 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. We have seen that at Downs, the role of ideology is fundamental and that ideology could function as a kind of shortcut. startxref 43 17 On the other hand, to explain the electoral choice, we must take into account factors that are very far from the vote theoretically, but we must also take into account the fact that there are factors that are no longer close to the electoral choice during a vote or an election. Downs already put ideology at the centre of his explanation. 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