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Voter Choice (voter + choice)
Selected AbstractsCoalition-Targeted Duvergerian Voting: How Expectations Affect Voter Choice under Proportional RepresentationAMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Issue 2 2009Matias A. Bargsted Inspired by analyses of majoritarian systems, students of consensual polities have analyzed strategic voting due to barriers to party success, namely, district magnitude and threshold. Given the prevalence of coalition governments in proportional systems, we analyze a type of strategic voting seldom studied: how expected coalition composition affects voter choice. We identify Duvergerian behavior by voters targeted at the coalition formation stage. We contend that when voters perceive their preferred party as unlikely to participate in the coalition, they often desert it and instead support the lesser of evils among those they perceive as viable coalition partners. We demonstrate our argument using data on coalition expectations from the 2006 Israeli elections. We find an appreciable albeit differential effect of coalition expectations on voter choice. Importantly, results hold controlling for ideological and coalition preferences. Lastly, we explore a broad cross-national comparison, showing that there is less, not more, proximity voting where coalitions are prevalent. [source] Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential VotePRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2001DAVID W. ROMERO Presidential election scholars have recently begun to explore whether vice presidential nominees have a meaningful influence on the presidential vote. Their findings are in conflict. Aggregate-level analyses find little support for the hypothesis that vice presidential candidates bring their ticket any regional or home state advantage. Individual-level analyses, on the other hand, find that vice presidential nominees have a surprisingly powerful influence on the typical voter's vote for president. These conflicting findings suggest that either aggregate-level results underestimate vice presidential nominees' influence on the vote or that individual-level results overestimate vice presidential nominees' influence on the vote. The author assumes it is the latter. Based on this assumption, the author reexamines whether vice presidential candidates influence the individual vote for president. Once rationalization affects are controlled, it is found that vice presidential candidates have no influence on the voters' choice for president. [source] The Europeanization of Czech Politics: The Political Parties and the EU ReferendumJCMS: JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, Issue 2 2006MICHAEL BAUN This article explores the Europeanization of Czech politics in the pre-accession period, with a principal focus on the political parties and party system. It argues that Czech political parties and party politics became increasingly Europeanized with the increased integration of the Czech Republic into the EU. In turn, the parties have played a key role in the Europeanization of Czech politics. This role is evident in the outcome of the June 2003 referendum on EU membership, which reflected strong cross-party support for EU accession (excepting the Communists). However, factors other than party support also influenced voters' choices, including regional factors and socio-economic factors such as employment status and level of income and education. [source] | ||||||||||