Anchoring Political Preferences: The Structural Bases of Stable Electoral Decisions and Political Attitudes in Britain

Zuckerman, Alan S.; Kotler-Berkowitz, Laurence; Swaine, Lucas

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“…Others call this conclusion into question and maintain the notion of a left-right dimension as organizing element of the shared political consciousness of individuals in a given society: Even if voters disagree on what 'left' exactly means, they agree to a large extent, for instance, on classifying a socialist party as leftist (Laponce 1970;Klingemann 1972;Van der Eijk 2001;Kroh 2003). Moreover, panel data show high within-person stability in people's own left-right positioning over time, which suggests that the left-right cognition is part of individuals' political identity (e.g., Sears and Funk 1999;Zuckerman et al 1998) and numerous studies demonstrate that people's left-right positioning uniformly affects all sorts of political attitudes and behaviors (e.g., Nie et al 1976;Van der Eijk and Franklin 1996). The response rate of the survey is 50% (response rate 1, see AAPOR standard definitions).…”

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Measuring Left-Right Political Orientation: The Choice of Response Format

Kroh¹

2007

Public Opinion Quarterly

162

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Measuring Left-Right Political Orientation: The Choice of Response Format

Kroh¹

2007

Public Opinion Quarterly

162

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“…One potential contextual effect has been largely ignored, however: the neighborhood effect (for an exception, see Zuckerman et al . 1994Zuckerman et al . , 1998.…”

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‘People Who Talk Together Vote Together’: An Exploration of Contextual Effects in Great Britain

Pattie

Johnston

2000

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

184

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Many students of British voting patterns have tested for the existence of contextual effects, which postulate that voters are influenced by events and people in their local milieux. One of those contextual effects is the neighborhood effect, whereby individuals are influenced by the nature of the politically relevant information circulating within their social networks, many of which are spatially constrained to their local area. Although ecological analyses have identified patterns consistent with this hypothesis, there have been virtually no direct investigations of the effect, largely because of the absence of relevant data. Using information from a large, clustered survey of voters at the time of the 1992 general election, this paper uncovers clear evidence of such effects: people are much more likely to change their votes in a particular direction if those with whom they discuss political issues support that direction, especially if they are members of the respondent's family and are the individuals with whom they discuss politics most. Key Words: voting, neighborhood effect, Great Britain.

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“…Moreover, the turnout of married citizens increases faster than the turnout of unmarried citizens as people grow older Rosenstone 1980, Harder andKrosnick 2008). Zuckerman et al (1998) identify the household as being the center of political discussion.…”

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Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference

Deng

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Rese

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Turnout has decreased in 23 out of 36 established democracies since 1945. Among all worldwide cases Costa Rica is a good laboratory for studying turnout oscillations. During three decades between 1958 and 1994, political participation average rates remained high in a comparative perspective. Following that trend, one would easily predict that individuals socialized during that period of time must replicate automatically their parents' and grandparents' levels of high political activism. However, turnout patterns in the country since 1998 do not fit very well in that story.Older voters are no longer voting at the rates they usually did and the younger are entering into politics during times of lower participation. The combination of these two factors can have big deleterious and long-lasting effects on turnout trends.Estimating the causal relationship between consecutive voting decisions has proven to be intrinsically difficult for social scientists. Drawing on an exceptionally rich and unique turnout dataset and a mixed-methods approach that includes longitudinal multivariate analysis, face-toface interviews and geospatial statistics this contribution seeks to explain why in Costa Rica, currently the oldest and most stable democracy in Latin America, turnout has declined? And more importantly: what factors drive these changes? v Individual characteristics, although still relevant in static theories regarding turnout determinants, have proved to be insufficient for understanding why individuals' turnout behavior varies over time. Instead, I theorize that the partisan (group) identity that makes people turn out because they are loyal to the party in a context of conflict produces stronger motivation but it is activated selectively, and it only works in a context of "threat" or polarized deliberation.Nevertheless, these incentives may change over time, they may increase or decrease under certain circumstances impacting turnout. Essentially, the more polarized the electoral competition, the easier it will be for citizens to cast their vote.A polarized deliberation, the key factor in my causal story, creates the conditions for the activation of strong partisan identities that stimulate voters' mobilization to the polls. Therefore, During the course of my fieldwork in Costa Rica, I accumulated many debts. I especially thank all the persons I contacted for the interviews and accepted to share their experiences with me. These interviews were crucial for my research project. Without the knowledge I compiled in these conversations I would not be able to develop the theoretical argument of chapter 6.In Pitt, I was also fortunate to share time with several great friends. (Carlin et.al. 2015).The worst case scenario would be one in which this pattern could extend individuals' apathy toward politics during lifetime, causing low turnout to freeze for decades. Therefore, if we want to understand the implications of turnout decline in established democracies, we first need to comprehend the conditions under which these chang...

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Anchoring Political Preferences: The Structural Bases of Stable Electoral Decisions and Political Attitudes in Britain

Cited by 26 publications

References 54 publications

Measuring Left-Right Political Orientation: The Choice of Response Format

Measuring Left-Right Political Orientation: The Choice of Response Format

‘People Who Talk Together Vote Together’: An Exploration of Contextual Effects in Great Britain

Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference

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