Decomposing the Vote: Individual, Communal, and Cantonal Sources of Voting Behavior in Switzerland

Steenbergen, Marco R.

doi:10.1002/j.1662-6370.2010.tb00435.x

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“…Prior evidence for the effects of age are mixed, however. While age effects are small, some have found a positive (e.g., Fitzgerald & Lawrence, ; Fontana et al, ), others a negative (Arzheimer, ; Lucassen & Lubbers, ; Lubbers & Scheepers, ; Werts et al, ), and yet others no relationship (Arzheimer & Carter, ; Oesch, ; Steenbergen, ; Stockemer, ) with radical right voting. Finally, having a migration background may also relate to lower support for SVP.…”

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“…Sociodemographic factors known to influence radical right‐wing voting (education and perceived financial situation, gender, age, and migration background) are accounted for prior to testing our main hypotheses. It is likely that members of low‐status categories—low education or struggling to make ends meet—experience immigrants as more threatening than others and may thus be more inclined to vote for the SVP (Steenbergen, ; see also Arzheimer & Carter, ; Oesch & Renwald, ). Also, men frequently vote for the radical right more than women (Fontana, Sidler, & Hardmeier, ).…”

Section: Radical Right Voting In Switzerland: Summary Of Predictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact

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Sarrasin

Baur

et al. 2015

Political Psychology

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This study examines the interplay between presence of stigmatized immigrants, threat, and intergroup contact that underlies radical right voting (voting propensity and actual district‐level vote results). On the one hand, low‐status immigrants are often stigmatized and depicted as threats. Thus, presence of stigmatized immigrants should heighten threat perceptions, thereby increasing radical right voting. On the other hand, as positive contact with stigmatized immigrants is known to reduce anti‐immigrant prejudice, it should also attenuate radical right voting. As predicted, multilevel path analyses with the Swiss Election Studies 2011 data (N = 1,736 respondents in 136 districts) revealed that the proportion of stigmatized immigrants (from former Yugoslavia and Albania) in districts heightened perceived threat. Threat perceptions, in turn, increased propensity to vote for the Swiss People's Party, the major radical right party. In contrast, experiencing positive, everyday contact with former Yugoslav and Albanian immigrants reduced voting propensity through attenuated threat perceptions. Contact and threat perceptions were also related to the actual vote through voting propensity.

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Section: Radical Right Voting In Switzerland: Summary Of Predictionsmentioning

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Section: Radical Right Voting In Switzerland: Summary Of Predictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact

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Sarrasin

Baur

et al. 2015

Political Psychology

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“…We have demonstrated that political messages espoused by a party that owns the issue have the potential to influence voters’ preferences. However, people are “limited information processors” (Lau and Redlawsk : 23); they are biased in how they process information (e.g., Fiske and Taylor ; Kunda ; Steenbergen ; Taber and Lodge ; Zaller ). Thus, the availability of a particular campaign message does not imply its automatic acceptance.…”

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Effects of Issue‐Specific Political Advertisements in the 2015 Parliamentary Elections of Switzerland

Zumofen

Gerber

2018

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Our paper captures the influence of political advertisements on vote intentions in the framework of the 2015 parliamentary elections. We focus on the two winning parties, the FDP and SVP, and the promotion of their stances on immigration/asylum, relations to the EU and the economy. We make use of an extensive database on political advertisements collected in 50 important national and regional newspapers that we link to the Selects respondents. Our findings only hint at limited effects of issue-specific advertisements with regard to the activation of latent preferences, suggesting that campaigns mattered more when they have managed to make a party's issue positions known to the electorate. The general reinforcement tendencies detected for migration ads of the SVP suggest that reinforcement effects might be particularly prone when highly contentious issues are at stake. Our results indicate that the SVP did not manage to mobilize new voters with their political advertisements.

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“…Studentsat least in the higher age groups of the samplecan be expected to have basic knowledge in the respective foreign language. We opted for using the language information in subsequent analysis because, traditionally, substantial regional differences exist in Switzerland when it comes to attitudes and certain forms of behaviors, such as voting (Steenbergen, 2010). Some of these differences fall along language lines -a phenomenon often described with the humorous term "Röstigraben" (Rösti ditch) (Brügger, Lalive, & Zweimüller, 2009).…”

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Stress 2.0: Social Media Overload Among Swiss Teenagers

Lutz¹,

Ranzini

Meckel³

2014

Communication and Information Technologies Annual

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Purpose: Technostress and information overload are serious challenges of the information age. An alarming number of people exhibit dangerously intensive media consumption, while Internet and mobile phone addictions are a widespread phenomenon. At the same time, new media overexposure among young people is understudied, even more so when social network sites are concerned.Methodology/approach: This study explores how feelings of overexposure and stress relate to the self-expressive needs of teenagers. It presents and discusses the results of a large-scale survey conducted during an exhibition on media overload in Switzerland. A total of 6989 adolescents provided answers on their media overload and stress.Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to quantify the influence of demographic characteristics on social network site related stress.Findings: While only a minority of 13 percent of respondents feels stressed by social network sites, more than one third has the feeling of spending too much time on such platforms. Age, gender and language background (French vs. German speaking) shape the overload propensity, with older, male and French speaking teenagers most at risk for social network site stress. Social implications:The study proposes that social divides exist in teenagers' ability to cope with a specific affordance of social network sites, namely their constant status updates and potential of overexposure. Furthermore, it reflects upon the relation between identity performance and stress. Originality of paper:The paper is one of the first to investigate social network site overload with a broad sample approach, quantifying antecedents of the phenomenon.

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Decomposing the Vote: Individual, Communal, and Cantonal Sources of Voting Behavior in Switzerland

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact

From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact

Effects of Issue‐Specific Political Advertisements in the 2015 Parliamentary Elections of Switzerland

Stress 2.0: Social Media Overload Among Swiss Teenagers

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