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. Even if there is still a significant effect of identification, there are other explanations and aspects to look for, particularly in terms of the issue vote and the assessments that different voters make of the issue vote. The individual is subjectivity at the centre of the analysis. xxxiii, 178. the difference in the cost-benefit ratio that different parties give. 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. _____ were the first widespread barriers to the franchise to be eliminated. voters who follow a systematic vote are voters who are willing to pay these information or information-related costs. 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. The book's focus was sociological, mainly considering socio-demographic predictors, interpersonal influence, cross-pressures, and the effects of social groups, as well as analyzing voter activation, reinforcement, and conversion across the election year. A lawmaker's (stochastic) voting behavior is characterized by the relationship between her position in this space and the bill's position [1 . This theory is not about the formation of political preferences, they start from the idea that there are voters with certain political preferences and then these voters will look at what the offer is and will choose according to that offer. Then they evaluate their own position in relation to the issues and they do the same operation positioning themselves on this left-right axis. One must assess the value of one's own participation and also assess the number of other citizens who will vote. The theoretical criticism consists in saying that in this psychosocial approach or in this vision that the psychosocial model has of the role of political issues, the evaluation of these issues is determined by political attitudes and partisan identification. 0000010337 00000 n The government is blamed for the poor state of the economy. Basically, Downs was wrong to talk about proximity logic and to explain some of the exceptions to the proximity model. 43 0 obj <> endobj Voters who rely on strong partisan identification do not need to go and do systematic voting or take one of the shortcuts. Video transcript. 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. There is a whole branch of the electoral literature that emphasizes government action as an essential factor in explaining the vote, and there is a contrast between a prospective vote, which is voting according to what the parties say they will do during the election campaign, and a retrospective vote, which is voting in relation to what has been done, particularly by the government, which has attributed the successes or failures of a policy. 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. 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. Has the partisan identification weakened? What is interesting is that they try to relate this to personality traits such as being open, conscientious, extroverted, pleasant and neurotic. For Iversen, distance is also important. Contenu disponible en Franais Contenido disponible en espaol Contenuto disponibile in italiano, The distinction between the three main explanatory models of voting is often found. 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. There are two important issues in relation to the spatial theory of voting. 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 third possible answer is that they will vote for the candidate whose political ideas are closest to their own. There are two variations. A first criticism that has been made is that the simple proximity model gives us a misrepresentation of the psychology 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 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. For most theories, and in particular Matthews' Simple Directional Model theory, the neutral point determines direction. It is a rather descriptive model, at least in its early stages. More specifically, the costs that the voter has to take into account according to the different parties and candidates must be evaluated, which is the partisan differential, i.e. Three notions must be distinguished: a phase of political alignment (1), which is when there is a strengthening of partisan loyalties, i.e. The basic assumption is that voters decide primarily on the basis of ideologies and not on the basis of specific positions on issues. (Second edition.) The Neighborhood Model. Harrop, Martin, and William L. Miller. We need to find identification measures adapted to the European context, which the researchers have done. There are several responses to criticisms of the proximity model. 65, no. Linked to this, it is important to look at individual data empirically as well. There are a whole bunch of individual characteristics related to the fact that one is more of a systematic voter of something else. In the Michigan model, the idea of stakes was already present but was somewhat underdeveloped, and this perspective on the role of stakes in the psychosocial model lent itself to both theoretical and empirical criticism from proponents of rationalist models. 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. The Lazarsfeld model would link membership and voting. 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. The simple proximity model is that the voter will vote for the party or parties that are in the same direction. 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. 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. Hirschman contrasts the "exit" strategy with the "voice" strategy, which is based on what he calls "loyalty", which is that one can choose not to leave but to make the organization change, to restore the balance between one's own aspirations and what the organization can offer. Another model is called the funnel model of causality which has been proposed by these authors working on the psycho-sociological model. There may be a vote that is different from partisan identification, but in the medium to long term, partisan identification should strengthen. Voters calculate the cost of voting. 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. trailer In directional models with intensity, there are models that try to show how the salience of different issues changes from one group to another, from one social group to another, or from one candidate and one party to another. Other researchers have tried to propose combined models that combine different explanations. This model predicts a convergence of party program positions around two distinct positions, there are two types of convergence. Inking and the role of socialization cause individuals to form a certain partisan identification that produces certain types of political attitudes. In other words, there is a social type variable, a cultural type variable and a spatial type variable. Some people talk about membership voting for the first two theories and cognitive voting for the economic model of voting. We must also take into account other socializing agents that can socialize us and make us develop a form of partisan identification. Voters try to maximize their individual utility. 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. This model shows that there is more than political identities, partisan identification and social inking. There are different strategies that are put in place by voters in a conscious or unconscious way to reduce these information costs, which are all the costs associated with the fact that in order to be able to evaluate the utility income given by one party rather than another, one has to go and see, listen, hear and understand what these parties are saying. Political conditions as well as the influence of the media play an important role, all the more so nowadays as more and more political campaigns and the role of the media overlap. There are different types of individuals who take different kinds of shortcuts or not, who vote systematically or not, and so on. "i.e., if it is proximity, it is 'yes', otherwise it is 'no' and therefore directional; 'are the preferences of the actors exogenous? Partisan attachment is at the centre of the graph influencing opinions on certain issues being discussed or the attitudes of certain candidates. 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 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. Comparative Political Studies, 27(2), 155189. Distance is understood in the sense of the proximity model for whom voter preference and party position is also important. The idea is that the extremist attitudes of those former voters who become party activists push strategic positioning in a direction that takes them away from their constituents. Even more plausibly, election campaigns are built around several issues. startxref The image that an individual has of himself in this perspective is also the result of this identification. The Peoples Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign. It is quite interesting to see the bridges that can be built between theories that may seem different. 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. 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. He wanted to see the role of the media in particular and also the role of opinion leaders and therefore, the influences that certain people can have in the electoral choice. The second explanation refers to the directional model, i.e. 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. A representative democracy. 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. 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, . 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. This identification is seen as contributing to an individual's self-image. "The answer is "yes", as postulated by spatial theories, or "no", as stated by Przeworski and Sprague, for example. 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. The psycho-sociological model, also known as the Michigan model, can be represented graphically or schematically. This creates a concern for circularity of reasoning. Three Models of Voting Behavior. The law of curvilinear disparity takes up this distinction. it takes a political position that evokes the idea of symbolic politics in a more salient way. 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. Downs, Anthony. For the sociological model we have talked about the index of political predisposition with the variables of socioeconomic, religious and spatial status. 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. The explanatory factors and aspects highlighted by these different models are always taken into account. Ideology is a means of predicting and inferring political positions during an election campaign. 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. European Journal of Political Research, 54(2), 197215. In short, it is an explanatory model that emphasizes the role of political attitudes. 0000004336 00000 n The voters choose the candidate whose positions will match their preferences. The theory of the economic model of the vote is also a model that allows predictions to be made about party behaviour. 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. Prospective voting says that voters will listen to what candidates and parties have to say. It rejects the notion that voting behavior is largely determined by class affiliation or class socialization. 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. Bakker, B. N., Hopmann, D. N., & Persson, M. (2014). However, he conceives the origin and function of partisan identification in a different way from what we have seen before. 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. 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. The ideological space can be defined as a left-right ideological space but can also be defined more precisely in relation to certain issues. The further a party moves in the other direction, the less likely the voter will choose it because the utility function gradually decreases. In other words, the homing tendency that is the explanation that the model postulates is much less true outside the United States. Finally, the results of this test are discussed and conclusions drawn. Spatial theories of voting are nothing other than what we have seen so far with regard to the economic model of voting. Finally, some studies show that high levels of education lead to weaker attachments to parties. 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. 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. It is possible to create a typology that distinguishes between four approaches crossing two important and crucial elements: "is voting spatial? There was a whole series of critics who said that if it's something rational, there's a problem with the way democracy works. In general, they are politically more sophisticated and better educated; those who rely on the opinion of the media and opinion leaders; that of the law of curvilinear disparity proposed by May; the directional model of Rabinowitz and Matthews; Przeworski and Sprague's mobilization of the electorate. There is no real electoral choice in this type of explanation, but it is based on our insertion in a social context. As part of spatial theories of the vote, some theories consider the characteristics of candidates. 2, 1957, pp. Moreover, retrospective voting can also be seen as a shortcut. So there are four main ways. 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. We want to know how and why a voter will vote for a certain party. maximum proximity, as the party, his or her utility increases, and when the voter moves away from the party, his or her utility decreases. The term "group" can mean different things, which can be an ethnic group or a social class. 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. 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. 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. 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. McClung Lee, A. The main explanatory factors have been sought in socio-economic status and socio-demographic variables such as "age," "gender," and "education. 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. 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. the earlier Columbia studies, the Michigan election studies were based upon national survey samples. 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. [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. 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. There is a direct link between social position and voting. 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. Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there has been a strong development of directional models. When the voter is in the same position, i.e. 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. That is called the point of indifference. These are possible answers more to justify and account for this anomaly. In both The People's Choice (Lazarsfeld et al., 1944) and Voting (Berelson et al., 1954), the authors 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. The importance of symbols lies in what arouses emotions. If we accept this premise, how will we position ourselves? 0000000866 00000 n On the other hand, the intensity directional model better explains the electoral choices of candidates who are not currently in power. a new model of legislative behavior that captures when and how lawmakers vote differently than expected. Theoretically, it is possible to have as many dimensions as there are issues being discussed in an election campaign. These are some of the criticisms and limitations often made by proponents of other approaches. 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. JSTOR. The theory of partisan competition was completely eliminated by the other types of explanations. 135150. Therefore, they cannot really situate where the different parties stand. A unified theory of voting: directional and proximity spatial models. 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) This model of voting behavior sees the voter as thinking individual who is able to take a view on political issues and votes accordingly. Due to the internet of behaviors (IoBe) information, user-specific recommendations can be customized in various fields such as trade, health, economy, law, and entertainment. What are the criteria for determining the individual usefulness of voters? 0000008661 00000 n Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 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. In this representation, there are factors related to the cleavages, but also other factors that relate to the economic, political or social structure of a country being factors that are far removed from the electoral choice but that still exert an important effect in an indirect way the effect they have on other variables afterwards. In the study of electoral behaviour, there is a simple distinction between what is called prospective voting and retrospective voting. For some, this model overestimates the capabilities that voters have. [15] Then we'll look at the space theories of the vote. Numerous studies have found that voting behavior and political acts can be "contagious . and voters who choose to use euristic shortcuts to solve the information problem. Much of the work in electoral behaviour draws on this thinking. By Phone: (386) 758-1026 ext. the further a party moves in the same direction as the voter, the more likely it is to be chosen by that voter. 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. A distinction is made between the sociological model of voting from the Columbia School, which refers to the university where this model was developed. This model emphasizes the role of integration into social groups. 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 fit of a measurement model that differentiates between the various degrees of suicidal severity was verified. On the other hand, preferences for candidates in power are best explained by the proximity model and the simple directional model. The idea is that there is something easier to evaluate which is the ideology of a party and that it is on the basis of this that the choice will be made. If we look at it a little more broadly, partisan identification can be seen as a kind of shortcut. This approach emphasizes a central variable which is that of partisan identification, which is a particular political attitude towards a party. 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. The importance of symbolic politics is especially capitalized on by the intensity directional models. Distance must be taken into account and the idea of mobilizing the electorate must be taken into account. 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. The idea that one identifies oneself, that one has an attitude, an attachment to a party was certainly true some forty years ago and has become less and less true and also the explanatory power of this variable is less important today even if there are significant effects. Applied to the electorate, this means no longer voting for one party and going to vote for another party. So there is an overestimation in this model with respect to capacity. 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. Merrill, Samuel, and Bernard Grofman. From the perspective of the issue vote, there are four main ways to explain how and why voters are going to vote a certain way and why parties are going to position themselves. The directional model also provides some answers to this criticism. The reference work is The Peoples Choice published in 1948 by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet. 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