This is an alternative way which is another answer to the question of how to evaluate the position of different parties and candidates. those who inquire: they are willing to pay these costs. 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. It can be defined as lasting feelings of attachment that individuals develop towards a certain party. To summarize these approaches, there are four possible answers to the question of how voters decide to vote. His conclusion is that the vote is explained both by elements of leadership, partly by an element of proximity and distance, but also, for some parties, it must also be taken into account that there are parties that act according to a mobilization of the electorate according to the approach of Przeworski and Sprague. These criticisms and limitations are related to the original model. We are not ignoring the psychological model, which focuses on the identification people have with parties without looking at the parties. This is a very common and shared notion. Nevertheless, some of these spatial theories depart from this initial formulation. 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. Value orientations refer to materialism as well as post-materialism, among other things, cleavages but no longer from a value perspective. In this model, importance is given to primary socialization. The main explanatory factors have been sought in socio-economic status and socio-demographic variables such as "age," "gender," and "education. There has been a lot of criticism that has allowed the idea of issue voting to develop in a rationalist context and models. There are several responses to criticisms of the proximity model. The psycho-sociological model, also known as the Michigan model, can be represented graphically or schematically. 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. 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. WebVirtually all modern political science studies of voting behavior rest on one of the three different underlying conceptions of the determinants of voting, often identified as the sociological (Columbia school), social- psychological (Michigan school), and rational choice (Rochester school) approaches. 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. In other words, they propose something quite ecumenical that combines directional and proximity models. 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). Below we evaluate models that use these types of measures as well. But a synthesis of traditions must be undertaken if further understanding of voting behavior is to build on earlier work. Maximizing utility is done in proximity to certain issues. These models describe how humans react to environmental factors and choose between different courses of action. Print. In a phase of alignment, this would be the psycho-sociological model, i.e. The utility function of the simple proximity model appears, i.e. 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. This model emphasizes the role of integration into social groups. The organization is in crisis and no longer reflects our own needs. There are other cleavages that cut across Republicans and Democrats that should be taken into account to explain the pattern. For example, there is Lazarsfeld's theory with the idea that opinion leaders can be seen as people to whom we attribute a strong trust and maybe even an esteem in relation to the political judgment they may have and therefore, by discussing with these people, it is possible to form an electoral choice and therefore there is no need to go and pay these costs of gathering information. With regard to the question of how partisan identification develops, the psycho-sociological model emphasizes the role of the family and thus of primary socialization, but several critics have shown that secondary socialization also plays a role. We must also, and above all, look at the links between types of factors. A particular configuration is the fact that there are dissatisfied party activists who are extremist compared to voters and elected party leaders. The sociological model obviously has a number of limitations like any voting model or any set of social science theories. It has often been emphasized that this model and approach raises more questions than answers. 5. 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. Downs already put ideology at the centre of his explanation. For Iversen, distance is also important. does partisan identification work outside the United States? The utility function of this model is modified compared to the simple model, i.e. The degree of political sophistication, political knowledge, interest in politics varies from voter to voter. We leave behind the idea of spatial theories that preferences are exogenous, that they are pre-existing and almost fixed. It is an answer that remains faithful to the postulates of Downs' theory and the proximity model. This is also known as the Columbia model. WebThe model of demographics that predicts how an individual will cast their vote. Weba new model of legislative behavior that captures when and how lawmakers vote differently than expected. On the other hand, this is true for the directional model; they manage to perceive a policy direction. The system in the United States is bipartisan and the question asked was "Do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or otherwise? Originally proposed by political scientists, beginning with an Proximity means the closeness of the voter's interests to the political proposals that are made with the parties. We are going to talk about the economic model. But more generally, when there is a campaign, the issues are discussed. These authors find with panel data that among their confirmed hypotheses that extroverted people tend to have a strong and stable partisan identification. WebThe choice of candidates is made both according to direction but also according to the intensity of positions on a given issue. Mitt Romney's gonna lower their taxes, so they're gonna vote for them, and to be clear, it's not that everyone's behavior 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. Voting is an instrument that serves us to achieve an objective. Ideology is to be understood as a way of simplifying our world in relation to the problem of information. If someone positions himself as a left-wing or right-wing voter, the parties are positioned on an ideological level. Please rate your chance of voting in November on a scale of 10 to 1. 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. A rather subjective and almost sentimental citizen is placed at the centre of the analysis. There is little room for context even though there are more recent developments that try to put the voter's freedom of choice in context. Using real data, the model has a predictive accuracy of 94.6% and an ROC AUC score of 96%. 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. Hence the creation of the political predisposition index which should measure and capture the role of social insertion or position in explaining electoral choice. Finally, there is an instrumental approach to information and voting. In this approach, these voters keep their partisan identification and again in the medium or long term, they will go back on the electoral choice that is identified with the partisan identification, also called the homing tendency, which is a tendency to go back on the party with which one identifies. Most voters have a sense of allegiance to a party that is inherited through the family. In order to explain this anomaly, another explanation beside the curvilinear explanation beside the directional theories of the vote, a third possibility to explain this would be to say that there are some parties that abandon the idea of maximizing the vote or electoral support in order to mobilize this electorate and for this we have to go to extremes. Parties do not try to maximize the vote, but create images of society, forge identities, mobilize commitments for the future. Moreover, retrospective voting can also be seen as a shortcut. On the other hand, in rationalist approaches, shortcuts are cognitive shortcuts. 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. xb```f`` @f8F F'-pWs$I*Xe< *AA[;;8:::X"$C[6#,bH.vdM?2Zr@ ai,L 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 creates a concern for circularity of reasoning. It was this model that proposed that abstention can be the result of a purely rational calculation. Moreover, there are analogies that are made even explicitly with the idea of the market. 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. Voters vote for the candidate or party closest to their own position which is the proximity model. xxxiii, 178. 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. Of course, there have been attempts to assess the explanatory power of directional models, but according to these researchers, these spatial models were designed to be purely theoretical in order to highlight on a purely theoretical level what motivations voters may have for their electoral choice. While in the United States, several studies have shown that partisan identification is an important explanatory power on electoral choice, in other contexts this is less true. On the other hand, women tend to have less stable partisan identification, they change more often too. 0 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 concept and this theory was developed in the United States by political scientists and sociologists and initially applied to the American political system with an attachment to the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. These are models that should make us attentive to the different motivations that voters may or may not have to make in making an electoral choice. Distance must be taken into account and the idea of mobilizing the electorate must be taken into account. 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. 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". 43 0 obj <> endobj Several studies show that the impact of partisan identification varies greatly from one context to another. Prospective voting is based on election promises and retrospective voting is based on past performance. What is interesting is that they try to relate this to personality traits such as being open, conscientious, extroverted, pleasant and neurotic. Some people talk about membership voting for the first two theories and cognitive voting for the economic model of voting. Yes, voted; no. 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This is something that remains difficult in theory, we don't know how much the voter will discount. It's believed that the social class was the most accurate indicator of likely voting intention. What interests us is that the idea of issue voting is fundamental to spatial theories of voting. 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. 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 voters choose the candidate whose positions will match their preferences. Here we see the key factors, namely electoral choice and, at the centre, the identification variable for a party, which depends on two types of factors, namely primary socialization and group membership. 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. Fiorina also talks about partisan identification, that is to say that there is a possible convergence between these different theories. However, we see that this is not always true and that there are parties that propose more extreme policies that receive considerable electoral support. In other words, there is the idea of utility maximization which is a key concept in rational choice theory, so the voter wants to maximize his utility and his utility is calculated according to the ratio between the cost and the benefit that can be obtained from the action, in this case going to vote (1) and going to vote for that party rather than this one (2). What we are interested in is on the demand side, how can we explain voters' electoral choice. There are several reasons that the authors of these directional models cite to explain this choice of direction with intensity rather than a choice of proximity as proposed by Downs. This is called prospective voting because voters will listen to what the parties have to say and evaluate on the basis of that, that is, looking ahead. Therefore, they cannot really situate where the different parties stand. There is a whole literature on opinion formation, quite consensually, that says that citizens have a limited capacity to process information. 0-8, 9, 10. This is the basic motivation for the development of these directional models. It is a paradigm that does not only explain from the macro-political point of view an electoral choice, but there is the other side of the coin which is to explain the choice that the parties make. Even more plausibly, election campaigns are built around several issues. The term "group" can mean different things, which can be an ethnic group or a social class. Those with a lower sense of 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). 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. A distinction is often made between two types of voters and votes between the: There are these two types and a whole literature on the different types of euristics that can be set up. Many researchers have criticised the Downs proximity model in particular. Discounting is saying that the voter does not fully believe what the parties say. This task is enormous, and only a modest beginning can be made here. 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. 0000007835 00000 n The 2020 election has driven home that the United States has a disparate and at times chaotic 50-state (plus D.C.) voting system. The predictions are driven by a random forest classification model that has been tuned and trained on 71 distinct county-level attributes. 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. 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. It is a small bridge between different explanations. 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. The psycho-sociological model is intended as a development that wants to respond to this criticism. Voters try to maximize their individual utility. 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. 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. 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. [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. Personality traits and party identification over time. 0000001213 00000 n 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 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. WebThis voting theory suggests that models of the vote choices of rational individuals should work with social rather than selfish utility functions. 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 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. It is possible to create a typology that distinguishes between four approaches crossing two important and crucial elements: "is voting spatial? We must also take into account other socializing agents that can socialize us and make us develop a form of partisan identification. The individual is subjectivity at the centre of the analysis. If we look at it a little more broadly, partisan identification can be seen as a kind of shortcut. Often, in Anglo-Saxon literature, this model is referred to as the party identification model. . These theories are the retrospective voting theories and the theories of ideological space. 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. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. In the study of electoral behaviour, there is a simple distinction between what is called prospective voting and retrospective voting. It is multidimensional also in the bipartisan context of the United States because there are cleavages that cut across parties. If that is true, then if there are two parties that are equally close to our preferences, then we cannot decide. Fiorina reverses the question, in fact, partisan identification can result from something else and it also produces electoral choices. The economic model of the vote puts the notion of electoral choice back at the centre. The strategic choices made by parties can also be e We end up with a configuration where there is an electorate that is at the centre, there are party activists who are exercising the "voice" and who have access to the extreme, and there are party leaderships that are in between. In prospective voting, Grofman said that the position of current policy is also important because the prospective assessment that one can make as a voter of the parties' political platforms also depends on current policy. The ideological space can be defined as a left-right ideological space but can also be defined more precisely in relation to certain issues. 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. In other words, if we know the partisan identification of voters, we can make a prediction about what the normal vote will be, which is a vote that is not or should not be influenced by other situational factors in a given electorate. There are three possible answers: May's Law of Curvilinear Disparity is an answer that tries to stay within the logic of the proximity model and to account for this empirical anomaly, but with the idea that it is distance and proximity that count. WebThe three widely accepted behavioral models of voter choice are: the sociological model, the social-psychological model, and the rational choice model. it is easier to change parties from one election to the next; a phase of realignment (3), which consists of creating new partisan loyalties. %PDF-1.3 % 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. WebThe Columbia Studies The modern history of academic voting research began in 1940 at Columbia University, where a team of social scientists assembled by Paul Lazarsfeld 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. An important factor is the role of political campaigns in influencing the vote. These are possible answers more to justify and account for this anomaly. 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. Hinich and Munger take up the Downs idea but turn it around a bit. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. WebThe Columbia model describes the influence of socialization on decision-making about whether to vote or not, and who to vote for; in this way, it highlights the importance of social integration as a motivating element for political participation. Positioning on a left-right scale is related to this type of theory. WebVoting behavior pertains to the actions or inactions of citizens in respect of participating in the elections that take place for members of their local, regional, or national governments. 43 17 In this way, parties can offer relatively extreme political platforms that are not optimal in the short term, but that generate higher levels of support in the medium and long term. Today, when we see regression analyses of electoral choice, we will always find among the control variables social status variables, a religion variable and a variable related to place of residence. This is the idea of collective action, since our own contribution to an election or vote changes with the number of other citizens who vote. Does partisan identification work outside the United States? 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. This approach has often been criticized as a static approach since socio-economic or even socio-demographic characteristics do not change in the short term and yet the vote increasingly changes in the short term, what is called in electoral volatility, i.e. On the other hand, preferences for candidates in power are best explained by the proximity model and the simple directional model. 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. The law of curvilinear disparity takes up this distinction. 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. According to Merril and Grofman, one cannot determine whether one pure model is superior to another because there are methodological and data limitations. This voting theory suggests that models of the vote choices of rational individuals should work with social rather than selsh utility functions. 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