Age difference in political decision making: Strategies for evaluating political candidates

Riggle, Ellen D. B.; Johnson, Mitzi M. S.

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“…Those within the lower age group (18-25years and 26-33 years) recorded a lower percentage of 15.6% and 17.8% respectively. These results uphold the findings of the studies by Riggle and Johnson (1996) and Berman and Johns (2000), who found that younger people in the United Kingdom were the least likely to vote and were less politically engaged. They also found that interest in politics increased with age.…”

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“…Berman and Johnson (2000) found that age explained different attitudes towards voting and that there was age difference in voting behaviour among electorates. Also Balogun and Olapegba (2001) in examining the influence of psychological and demographic variables among voters in Ibadan, Nigeria, found that age was a major predictor of voting behaviour.In the same vein, Riggle and Johnson (1996) found that young people in the United Kingdom are the least likely to vote; rather they are bystanders and most likely not registered to vote. The explanation for this is that they are most likely not to be politically engaged.…”

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The Determinants of Voting Behaviour: Evidences from the 2015 Elections in Oyo State, Nigeria

Ogbogu¹,

Olaoye²

2017

JPAG

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This study identified the determinants of voting behavior of electorates in the year 2015 general election in Oyo State, Nigeria. This was done with a view to ascertain whether gender, age and personal ideology affected the voting behavior of the electorates in the election process. The study which is a survey generated its primary data through the administration of questionnaire on 640 randomly selected electorates from 3 randomly selected local government in Oyo State, Nigeria. The retrieved data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics in the form of means, standard deviation, t-test and multiple regression.The results revealed that age (β = 0.158; t = 4.051; P<0.05) and personal ideology (-0.135; t = -3.472; P<0.05) significantly predicted electorates" voting behavior, while gender (β = 0.068; t = 1.748, P>0.05) did not directly predict the voting behavior of the electorates. This implied that there was no significant difference between the voting behavior of the male and female electorates (t = -1.488; P >0.05).The study concluded that the Nigerian government needs to harness efforts in educating her citizenry on the essence of voting as a civic duty which should not be affected by age, or gender. This would improve the personal ideology of the electorates to the level that guarantees sustenance of democracy.

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The Determinants of Voting Behaviour: Evidences from the 2015 Elections in Oyo State, Nigeria

Ogbogu¹,

Olaoye²

2017

JPAG

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“…These results are perfectly consistent with the only other research we could find that explores age differences on political information processing, a study by Riggle and Johnson (1996) which employed a classic static information board. 1 They presented subjects (40 younger people between ages 18 and 35, 40 older people between ages 50 and 85) with two electoral choices, one a special senate election with six candidates, the second a city council election with eight candidates.…”

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“…3 Riggle and Johnson (1996) also report that older subjects seemed to engage in relatively more within-candidate search, while younger subjects preferred relatively more within-attribute or dimensional search. Both of these patterns are systematic-although it is much easier to engage in either of them with a static information board.…”

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Older but Wiser? Effects of Age on Political Cognition

Lau

Redlawsk

2008

The Journal of Politics

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In experimental studies of voter's information processing, Lau and Redlawsk (2006) found one control variable to have pervasive effects in their analyses: age. Age was associated with less information search, less memory, less accurate memory, and a lower probability of making a correct vote. Reexamining those experimental studies, we find that inexperience with computers and slower manual dexterity are both associated with less information access, but controlling on these factors, age continues to have a strong negative effect on information processing. In other more familiar situations, however, political knowledge can accumulate with greater experience, as it does with memories for actual presidential candidates and political parties, although this effect reverses at very advanced ages. Age has minimal effects on the probability of correct voting until the mid-60s, but we observe very sharp dropoffs thereafter. The normative implications of these findings for democratic representativeness are discussed.

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“…This research put forward in an explicit fashion the representation of the responsible citizen as a cognitive miser (Fiske & Taylor, 1991), or one who relies on simple rules of thumb (heuristics) that approximate rational decision making. 1 In its current form, this research agenda focuses on a wide variety of topics, including both how useful heuristics actually are for voters (Bartels, 1996;Lau & Redlawsk, 1997;Lau & Redlawsk, 2001) and whether voters actually use heuristics and, if so, which ones (Rahn, 1993;Riggle & Johnson, 1996;Lau & Redlawsk, 2001).…”

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Letting the good times roll: A theory of voter inference and experimental evidence

Patty

Weber

2006

Public Choice

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This paper examines inference and attribution in a simple and ubiquitous strategic situation: a voter is faced with discerning whether a leader worked on his or her behalf after observing an informative, but noisy signal about the leader's performance. We characterize perfect Bayesian equilibria, quantal response equilibria (QRE), and provide a simple model of a heuristic-based approach, referred to as strategic naivete, within a wide class of such environments. We also discuss experiments conducted to examine human behavior within such an environment. While it is clear that the observed behavior is inconsistent with perfect Bayesian equilibrium, distinguishing between QRE and strategic naivete will require further work. We conclude with a discussion of the broader implications of probabilistic and/or heuristic-based attribution processes for electoral politics and political economy. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007

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Age difference in political decision making: Strategies for evaluating political candidates

Cited by 64 publications

References 15 publications

The Determinants of Voting Behaviour: Evidences from the 2015 Elections in Oyo State, Nigeria

The Determinants of Voting Behaviour: Evidences from the 2015 Elections in Oyo State, Nigeria

Older but Wiser? Effects of Age on Political Cognition

Letting the good times roll: A theory of voter inference and experimental evidence

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