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. 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. 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. McElroy's connection to Vancouver didn't end there. Basic Idea What you are vote choice ; Key foundational studies ; Lazarsfeld, Berelson, Gaudet (1944) The Peoples Choice Berelson, Lazarsfeld, McPhee (1954) Voting The second criticism is the lack of an adequate theory of preference formation. It is possible to create a typology that distinguishes between four approaches crossing two important and crucial elements: "is voting spatial? There are several responses to criticisms of the proximity model. Voters are more interested in political results than in political programmes, and the choice is also made from this perspective. In both The People's Choice (Lazarsfeld et al., 1944) and Voting (Berelson et al., 1954), the authors For Lazarsfeld, we think politically how we are socially, there is not really the idea of electoral choice. 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 Peoples Choice (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, & Gaudet, 1944) and By Web: Vote-By-Mail Web Request. xref For Fiorina, the retrospective vote is the fact that current policy is fundamental, whereas in the prospective vote it is less so. This is the proximity model. 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". Ideal point models assume that lawmakers and bills are represented as points in a latent space. Voters who rely on strong partisan identification do not need to go and do systematic voting or take one of the shortcuts. This theory presupposed that the voter recognizes his or her own interest, assesses alternative candidates, and on the basis of this assessment, will choose for the candidate or party that will be most favourably assessed in the sense of best serving his or her own political interests and interests. An important factor is the role of political campaigns in influencing the vote. The limitations are the explanation of partisan identification, which is that the model has been criticized because it explains or does not explain too much about where partisan identification comes from except to say that it is the result of primary socialization. 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. Lazarsfeld was the first to study voting behaviour empirically with survey data, based on individual data, thus differentiating himself from early studies at the aggregate level of electoral geography. While Downs said that there are parties that take positions on issues, the voter has difficulty with this inferring a position on a left-right axis. If we take into account Przeworski and Sprague's idea that preferences are exogenous and not endogenous, it is possible to create a typology as Iversen did. 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. 3105. [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. Ideology is to be understood as a way of simplifying our world in relation to the problem of information. These are possible answers more to justify and account for this anomaly. So there is an overestimation in this model with respect to capacity. Hirschman wanted to explain what happens in organizations when they enter a situation of crisis or decline. Then they evaluate their own position in relation to the issues and they do the same operation positioning themselves on this left-right axis. 0000000866 00000 n In other words, party activists tend to be more extreme in their political attitudes than voters or party leaders. IVERSEN, T. (1994). The concept of electoral choice does not belong to the sociological model but rather to rationalist theories. They are both proximity choices and directional choices with intensity, since there are voters who may choose intensity and others who may choose direction. We can talk about two major theories or two major models or even three models. 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. Property qualifications. 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. The theories that are supposed to explain the electoral choice also explain at the same time the electoral participation in particular with the sociological model. There was a whole series of critics who said that if it's something rational, there's a problem with the way democracy works. All parties that are in the same direction of the voter maximize the individual utility of that voter. One must assess the value of one's own participation and also assess the number of other citizens who will vote. There are other cleavages that cut across Republicans and Democrats that should be taken into account to explain the pattern. 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. The assumption is that mobilizing an electorate is done by taking clear positions and not a centrist position. 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. Later, their analysis saw that party identification and attachment was the most common factor. It was this model that proposed that abstention can be the result of a purely rational calculation. Often, in Anglo-Saxon literature, this model is referred to as the party identification model. In Person: 971 W Duval St. Ste. It is the state of the economy that will decide who will win the election or not. Sociological Model (Columbia Model) Social-Psychological Model (Michigan Model) Economic / Rational Choice Model (Rochester Model) 5 Sociological Model. 0000001124 00000 n These are voters who proceed by systematic voting. The cause-and-effect relationship is reversed, according to some who argue that this is a problem at the empirical level when we want to study the effect of partisan identification on electoral choice because there is a problem of endogeneity; we no longer know what explains what. It also proposes a reconceptualization of the concept of partisanship in order to integrate all relevant contributions of the . 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). Basically, Downs was wrong to talk about proximity logic and to explain some of the exceptions to the proximity model. In other words, social, spatial or group membership largely determines individual political actions. _____ were the first widespread barriers to the franchise to be eliminated. The idea is that you stay loyal and you do "voice", that is, act to make things change. 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. $2.75. The extent to which the usefulness of voters' choices varies from candidate to candidate, but also from voter to voter. 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. The voters have to make that assessment and then decide which one brings more income and which one we will vote for. in what is commonly known as the Columbia school of thought, posited that contextual factors influence the development . 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. Three elements should be noted. LAZARSFELD, PAUL F., BERNARD BERELSON, and HAZEL GAUDET. This diagram shows the process of misalignment with changes in the generational structure and changes in the social structure that create political misalignment. This idea of an issue was not invented by the proponents of the economic model of voting but was already present in the psycho-sociological model. This is related to its variation in space and time. Distance must be taken into account and the idea of mobilizing the electorate must be taken into account. They may rely less on their partisan loyalties, so their vote may be explained less by their social base and more by their choice among an offer that is the economic model. There are two important issues in relation to the spatial theory of voting. The term "group" can mean different things, which can be an ethnic group or a social class. Radical approach regards class-based (structural) model as outdated and insufficient to explain . The goal of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the measurement of suicide severity based on the Columbia suicide severity rating scale. Thus, the interpretation of differences in voting behaviour from one group to another is to be sought in the position of the group in society and in the way its relations with parties have developed. 0000000636 00000 n New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. 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. It is also often referred to as a point of indifference because there are places where the voter cannot decide. For Iversen, distance is also important. At the basis of the reflection of directional models, and in particular of directional models with intensity, there is what is called symbolic politics. This paper examines two models used in survey research to explain voting behavior. and voters who choose to use euristic shortcuts to solve the information problem. Also called the Columbia model (after the university from whence came the researchers), the sociological model of voting behavior was constructed with the intention of studying the effect of media on voting choice. 0000003292 00000 n 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) Most voters have a sense of allegiance to a party that is inherited through the family. Sometimes, indeed often, people combine the first two models incorporating the psycho-sociological model on the basis that the Michigan model is just an extension of the Columbia model that helps explain some things that the Columbia model cannot explain. Voting for a candidate from one party in one race and for the other party's candidate in another race is known as. On this basis, four types of voters can be identified in a simplified manner: It is possible to start from the assumption that the characteristics of these different voters are very different. When the voter is in the same position, i.e. 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. 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. All of these factors and their relationships have to be taken into account, but at the centre is always the partisan attachment. it is easier to change parties from one election to the next; a phase of realignment (3), which consists of creating new partisan loyalties. Even more plausibly, election campaigns are built around several issues. 43 17 Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 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. offers a behavior analysis of voting behavior. Three Models of Voting Behavior. So there is this empirical anomaly where there is a theory that presupposes and tries to explain the electoral choices but also the positions of the parties in a logic of proximity to the centre of the political spectrum, but on the other hand there is the empirical observation that is the opposite and that sees parties and voters located elsewhere. There is a small bridge that is made between these two theories with Fiorina on the one hand and the Michigan model of another party that puts the concept of partisan identification at the centre and that conceives of this concept in a very different way, especially with regard to its origin. What interests us is that the idea of issue voting is fundamental to spatial theories of voting. For many, voting is a civic duty. 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. HUr0c:*+ $ifrh b98ih+I?v1q7q>. 0000001213 00000 n A distinction must be made between the affective vote of the psycho-sociological model and the cognitive vote of the theories of the economic model. p. 31). The basic assumption is that voters decide primarily on the basis of ideologies and not on the basis of specific positions on issues. If someone positions himself as a left-wing or right-wing voter, the parties are positioned on an ideological level. Therefore, they cannot really situate where the different parties stand. In other words, when we are interested in trying to explain the vote, we must already know what type of voter we are talking about. If we take into account Przeworski and Sprague's idea that there can be a mobilization of the electorate in a logic of endogenous preference and non-maximization of the utility of voters. 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. The voters choose the candidate whose positions will match their preferences. %%EOF The idea is to see what are all the factors that explain the electoral choice. One of the merits, which can be found in Lazarsfeld's book entitled The People's Choice published in 1944 is that this model marks a turning point in the study of political behaviour. 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. Numerous studies have found that voting behavior and political acts can be "contagious . On that basis, voters calculate the utility income of the different parties and then they look at and evaluate the partisan differential. 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 also the economic vote, which is the role of the economy. The strategic choices made by parties can also be explained by this model since, since this model postulates an interdependence between supply and demand, we address the demand but we can also address the supply. This is called the proximity model. According to Merril and Grofman, one cannot determine whether one pure model is superior to another because there are methodological and data limitations. This model predicts a convergence of party program positions around two distinct positions, there are two types of convergence. This means that we are not necessarily going to listen to all the specific arguments of the different parties. In a phase of alignment, this would be the psycho-sociological model, i.e. 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. . This ensures congruence and proximity between the party and the electorate. The distance must be assessed on the basis of what the current policy is. This model emphasizes the role of integration into social groups. 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. Downs already put ideology at the centre of his explanation. At the aggregate level, the distribution of partisan identification in the electorate makes it possible to calculate the normal vote. Linked to this, it is important to look at individual data empirically as well. The idea of the directional model, and this applies to both the simple directional model and the intensity directional model, is that voters basically cannot clearly perceive the different positions of political parties or candidates on a specific issue. Certain developments in the theory of the psycho-sociological model have in fact provided answers to these criticisms. 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. Elections and voters: a comparative introduction. It is a variant of the simple proximity model which remains in the idea of proximity but which adds an element which makes it possible to explain certain voting behaviours which would not be explainable by other models. how does partisan identification develop? 65, no. startxref Many researchers have criticised the Downs proximity model in particular. A corollary to this theory is that voters react more to the government than to the opposition because performance is evaluated and a certain state of the economy, for example, can be attributed to the performance of a government. Thus, voters find it easier to assess performance than declared plans during an election campaign. 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. 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). The psycho-sociological model has its roots in Campell's work entitled The American Voter publi en 1960. A unified theory of voting: directional and proximity spatial models. The theoretical account of voting behavior drew heavily upon the metaphor of a 'funnel of causality'. 0000002253 00000 n What we are interested in is on the demand side, how can we explain voters' electoral choice. Reinforcement over time since adult voters increasingly rely on this partisan identification to vote and to face the problems of information, namely partisan identification seen as a way of solving a problem that all voters have, which is how to form an idea and deal with the abundance and complexity of the information that comes to us from, for example, the media, political campaigns or others in relation to the political offer. It is also possible to add that the weight of partisan identification varies from one voter to another. It is possible to determine direction based on the "neutral point" which is the point in the middle, or it is also possible to determine direction from the "status quo". Merrill, Samuel, and Bernard Grofman. This is something that remains difficult in theory, we don't know how much the voter will discount. [10], The third model is called the economic model of the vote or the Rochester School of Economics, developed by Downs in the book An Economic Theory of Democracy published in 1957.[11]. Video transcript. Pages pour les contributeurs dconnects en savoir plus. 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. 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. Voters try to maximize their individual utility. 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. Some people talk about membership voting for the first two theories and cognitive voting for the economic model of voting. This is a fairly reasonable development, as is the discounting model, whose proximity was something reasonable and which makes the model more consistent with reality. That is what is called the proximity vote, that is, having a preference over a policy. The 'funnel of causality' provided a convenient framework within which to pursue both a comprehensive program of electoral accounting and a more selective strategy of explanation. 102 Lake City, FL 32055 OR 17579 SW State Road 47 Fort White, FL 32038. This model shows that there is more than political identities, partisan identification and social inking. This is the basic motivation for the development of these directional models. Numbers abound, since we have seen that, in the end, both models systematically have a significant effect. 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. 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. The basic assumptions of the economic model of the vote are threefold: selfishness, which is the fact that voters act according to their individual interests and not according to their sense of belonging to a group or their attachment to a party. Maximizing utility is done in proximity to certain issues. This is central to spatial theories of voting, that is, voters vote or will vote for the candidate or party that is closest to their own positions. 2, 1957, pp. There are other theories that highlight the impact of economic conditions and how voters compare different election results in their electoral choices, which refers to economic voting in the strict sense of the term. 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. (June 2012) Networks in electoral behavior, as a part of political science, refers to the relevance of networks in forming citizens' voting behavior at parliamentary, presidential or local elections. 43 0 obj <> endobj There has also been the criticism of abstention as the result of rational calculation. The initial research saw three major factors to voting behaviour: Personal identification with one of the political parties, concern with issues of national government policy and personal attraction to the presidential candidates. 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. 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. 0000004336 00000 n The spatial theory of the vote postulates that the electoral choice is made in the maximization of individual utility. In this model, importance is given to primary socialization. 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. That is why there are many empirical analyses that are based on this model. Symbols evoke emotions. We must also, and above all, look at the links between types of factors. It is quite interesting to see the bridges that can be built between theories that may seem different. 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. Others have criticized this analogy between the economic market and the political market as being a bit simplistic, saying that, basically, the consequences of buying a consumer product have a certain number of consequences, but they are much more limited compared to what buying a vote can have in terms of choosing a party. It is possible to attribute some merits and some criticisms to this model at least in its initial formulation. 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. 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. Iversena proposed a way of classifying the different explanatory theories of voting that allow to add a very important element that has been neglected until now. On the basis of this, we can know. In the spatial theories of the vote, we see the strategic link between a party's supply and a demand from voters or electors. In the literature, we often talk about the economic theory of voting. 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. 0000009473 00000 n This model of voting behavior sees the voter as thinking individual who is able to take a view on political issues and votes accordingly. 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. In other words, the voters' political preferences on different issues, in other words, in this type of theorizing, they know very well what they want, and what is more, these positions are very fixed and present when the voter is going to have to vote. 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