Motives behind voting and the perception of the motives: paradox of voting in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Krajina, Anida; Procházka, Jakub

doi:10.1007/s40822-017-0087-8

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“…This is not to say survey researches have ignored expressive choice. One method is to ask voters directly whether they vote to express their political views (Carlsson and Johansson-Stenman 2010;Krajina and Prochazka 2017). However, this has the limitation for the analysis of voter turnout since, whilst it is possible to ask voters why they voted or intend to vote, it makes little sense to ask this of non-voter.…”

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Being a voter: developing a survey instrument for expressive voting

Fieldhouse

2018

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

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It has been argued that expressive motivations are a crucial element in persuading people to vote, overcoming the "paradox of voting" and it has been demonstrated that in experimental situations, subjects behave in a manner consistent with expressive voting. However, there have been limited attempts at operationalizing expressive voting in a survey context and these have been unable to successfully separate the influence of outcome related benefits (instrumental pay-offs) from expressive pay-offs. In this paper, we use a web survey experiment to first identify citizens with a propensity to behave expressively and then assess the validity of the instrument.

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Section: Survey Measures Of Expressivenessmentioning

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Being a voter: developing a survey instrument for expressive voting

Fieldhouse

2018

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

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“…But, as Copeland and Laband (2002) and many others noted, the ensuing prediction of overspread abstention is systematically contradicted by medium to high levels of electoral participation. This mismatch between the prediction of generalised abstention and actual turnout figures is known as the “paradox of not voting” or the “paradox of voting” (Ferejohn and Fiorina, 1974; Krajina and Prochazka, 2018).…”

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Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election

Santana

Gibert

Rama

2020

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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This article puts Down’s instrumental voter model (IVM) to a formal test using data of the 2017 Chilean national elections. It aims at two novel exercises in the research in the calculus of voting. Using a brand-new questionnaire with indicators on instrumental and consumption motivations for voting, we reassess the voting equation in Santiago de Chile. Furthermore, we analyse whether instrumental and consumption motivations have distinctive effects for individuals with different socio-demographic characteristics. Our results show that they do: women, younger, lower educated, and unmarried citizens are more responsive to both instrumental and consumption motivations. Moreover, the factors of the IVM travel better to Santiago de Chile than those of the consumption model.

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Motives and Perceptions of Greek Voters in National Elections of 2023

Sophocleous,

Anastasiadou,

Masouras

et al. 2024

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

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The current paper is founded on the statement that voting behaviour is an exercise of consumer behaviour and is modelled by factors such as the motives, the perceptions and the reason of voting. In this sense, the central research aim of the paper is to clarify and analyse the impact that the aforementioned factors might have upon voters’ behaviour. Accordingly, the paper provides an appropriate conceptual background and involved collecting of primary data, and thus, it employs a quantitative methodology. More specifically, the research involved a survey through the use of a structured questionnaire with the practice of a 5-point Linkert Scale, which permits assessing the impact of electoral behaviour. Furthermore, the survey was carried out electronically, with the procedure of a convenient sample, with 605 Greek citizens (men and women) with voting right. The responses took place between the 27th of June and the 11th of July 2023, just after the two subsequent Greek electoral contests. The specific circumstance was selected in order to achieve the deliberation of a clear electoral output and therefore, to attain the monitoring of a transparent impact of the electoral behaviour. Apart from the positive timing, an additional reason for which the Greek case has been chosen, is the fact that there is a constructive ground for the specific field. Therefore, the specific research is likely to contribute to the existing research gap. The research demonstrates and measures the electorate impact of the different aspects of voting behaviour. The paper reveals and measures the electoral impact of the motives, the perceptions and the reason of voting. The political arena and those involved may benefit from these results.

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Motives behind voting and the perception of the motives: paradox of voting in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Being a voter: developing a survey instrument for expressive voting

Being a voter: developing a survey instrument for expressive voting

Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election

Motives and Perceptions of Greek Voters in National Elections of 2023

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