Issue cross-pressures and time of voting decision

He, QingQian

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2016.08.017

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“…One of the reasons is that voters' issue preferences can cut across established and emerging political cleavages, pressuring them to prioritize and trade off their concerns against each other. Accordingly, researchers increasingly acknowledge the importance of issue cross-pressures in vote choices (He, 2016). Our goal was to examine the relative strength of issue preferences and to what extent voters of radical and mainstream parties are willing to make issue trade-offs.…”

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“…Still, available knowledge tends to overlook that as a response to partisan dealignment and changing lines of political conflict, cross-pressured individuals must and do trade off issues in formulating voting decisions. In line with the notions of 'cross-cutting cleavages' (Rokkan, 1967), 'cross-cutting pressures' (Berelson et al, 1954) or 'issue cross-pressures' (He, 2016), a voter's congruence with a candidate's proposals on redistribution can be counteracted by a candidate's incongruent positions on immigration. Therefore, in most voting scenarios, the same voter has to trade off several more or less important preferences against each other to see her favourite one fulfilled.…”

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“…In this regard, an impressive body of research has examined the factors determining voting choices. Yet, despite recent advances (He, 2016; Lefkofridi et al., 2014; Steiner & Hillen, 2021), only scarce attention has been paid to measuring and examining the consequences of issue‐cross pressures that relate to ‘inconsistencies among individuals’ attitudes towards various political objects' (He, 2016, p. 364). Our goal is to address this gap, shedding light on the impact of issue‐cross pressures on vote choices and to examine the mechanisms of how voters of different party families trade off various issue preferences against each other.…”

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“…The relevance of issue-cross pressures in voting decisions has been acknowledged before (He, 2016;Lefkofridi, Wagner, & Willmann, 2014) but empirical findings on how citizens navigate competing issue preferences remain sparse. In fact, despite a wealth of single-country or comparative studies on electoral behavior (Arzheimer, 2018;Rooduijn, 2018;Steiner & Hillen, 2021), the primarily survey-based evidence makes it hard to study issue-cross pressures, for at least two reasons.…”

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Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies

Kirkizh

Froio

Stier

2022

European J Political Res

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The politics of representation has become increasingly complex in recent years. Amid weakening traditional political cleavages, the emergence of new political divides and mounting anti-elitism that have helped the rise of radical populist parties, voters face significant cross-pressures when casting their ballots. Despite a wealth of studies on the role of issue preferences in voting behavior, there are still many unknowns when it comes to understanding how voters trade off competing issue preferences against each other. Studying issue trade-offs is also important against the backdrop of the well-documented preference of radical left and right voters for redistribution and restrictive immigration policies, respectively. To investigate the strength of issue preferences among radical left, radical right and mainstream party voters and the willingness to compromise on their most important issues, we conducted a conjoint survey experiment with 2,000 participants in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The voting scenario in the experiment featured proposals on salient political issues and different (non)populist stances on political representation. The results from the cross-country study as well as a large replication study with a sample of 4,000 German respondents show that voters of radical right parties are willing to accept large trade offs regarding their other issue preferences as long as their preference for restrictive immigration policies is fulfilled. Differently, radical left, Green and mainstream party voters have a more variegated range of issue preferences, some of them so strong that they are not traded off for their preferred redistribution and EU integration positions, respectively. The findings shed light on trade-offs related to emerging issues such as climate change and the distinct logics behind support for radical parties. They also have implications for the electoral prospects of mainstream and radical parties when trying to reposition themselves in the diversifying issue space of contemporary democracies. As such, understanding how voters navigate issue cross-pressures helps to explain the broader dynamics that are (re)configuring political conflict and voting behavior in Europe.

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Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies

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Stier

2022

European J Political Res

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“…Levels of electoral volatility are on the rise and an increasingly large portion of the electorate decides late what party to vote for (Dalton, 2013;Dalton & Wattenberg, 2000;Dassonneville & Hooghe, 2017;He, 2016). These trends have led to a renewed interest in the causes of unstable voting behaviour and volatile party preferences (Dassonneville & Stiers, 2018).…”

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Do volatile voters vote less correctly? An analysis of correct voting among vote (intention) switchers in US presidential election campaigns

Stiers

Dassonneville

2018

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

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The literature on electoral volatility and the literature on electoral campaigns hold contradictory views on voters switching vote (intention) during the campaign. In this note, we shed new light on this contradiction, making two contributions. First, we investigate the extent to which stable and volatile voters choose the correct party. Second, we distinguish levels of correct voting and the impact of the act of switching on the correctness of the vote. Our analyses of vote-switching in American elections show that, while volatile voters are less likely to vote correctly, they are more likely to switch from an incorrect to the correct party than vice versa. Furthermore, we show that following the campaign more closely makes voters more likely to switch vote (intention) towards the correct party.

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Decision period and Duverger's psychological effect in FPTP elections: Evidence from India

Zhirnov

2019

Electoral Studies

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Issue cross-pressures and time of voting decision

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies

Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies

Do volatile voters vote less correctly? An analysis of correct voting among vote (intention) switchers in US presidential election campaigns

Decision period and Duverger's psychological effect in FPTP elections: Evidence from India

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