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3 models of voting behaviors (Sociological model of voting behavior…
3 models of voting behaviors
Sociological model of voting behavior
Political homogeneity of social groups
Activation, reinforcement and conversion
Social transmission of political choices
social differentiation
socio-economic status
religion
race
place of residence
transmissibility
maintenance and persistence of differentiation
from generation to generation
social and physical
proximity between members of a group
socio-economic status
religion
area of residence
Perception and political differentiation
Democratic practice and theory
Democratic practice and theory
Social cleavage
perception,
social identity
ingroup preference
Psychosocial model of voting behavior
Proximal and distal factors
distal factors
socio-economic
historical factors
values and attitudes
membership groups
proximal factors
political issues,
candidates
election campaign
political and economic
situation
government action
influence of friends
Funnel of causality
Partisanship
evaluate candidates, related social issues, and campaigns for communication
long term factors
short term factor
dispositional factor
this funnel is the vote
Rational Choice Model
Maximizing the action’s utility
Consistent behaviors of political parties and government
Uncertainty
Spatial representation
Strategic vote
allow rational choice for both rational belief and irrational belief
assume that parties are responsible and reliable
need to produce forecasts of the performance for each party
assume: voters and political parties act directly based on their own
interests.
political parties guided by
utility maximization of action in order to win elections
Calculating parties differentials