Political Attitudes and Behavior: Some Consequences of Attitudinal Ordering

Kirkpatrick, Samuel A.

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“…how much of a chance each party has of winning) may have an effect on the time at which they make up their mind. Kirkpatrick (1972) has shown that some American voters postpone their electoral decision for the presidential elections until the last weeks of the campaign, when they have a strong preference for one of the two main candidates, but expect the other to win.…”

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Explaining Time of Vote Decision: The Socio-Structural, Attitudinal, and Contextual Determinants of Late Deciding

Willocq

2018

Political Studies Review

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In the last decades, Western democracies have witnessed an increase in the proportion of voters who make their electoral choice late in the campaign. Consequently, scholars have paid considerable attention to this phenomenon and attempted to identify the factors which influence time of vote decision. This article reviews the literature on the determinants of decision timing. Several studies suggest that women and young citizens are more likely to be late deciders. Besides, party identification has been shown to hasten the electoral decision, whereas attitudinal ambivalence and network cross-pressures have been found to delay the crystallisation of vote intentions. Moreover, previous work reveals that strategic voters decide later than do their sincere counterparts. Special attention is also devoted to the debate on whether the phenomenon of late deciding can be seen as the consequence of a lack of political sophistication or as the product of a high level of political engagement.

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Section: Strategic Considerationsmentioning

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Explaining Time of Vote Decision: The Socio-Structural, Attitudinal, and Contextual Determinants of Late Deciding

Willocq

2018

Political Studies Review

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“…Additional support for this self-interest hypothesis can be grounded in cognitive psychology, to which researchers in political science often refer [ 15 , 16 ]. People strive towards consistency between their various attitudes.…”

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“…When an inconsistent situation occurs, a cognitive rearrangement is made to reduce the inconsistency. Some models such as balance models, congruity approaches and dissonance theory have been developed to explain this situation [ 15 , 17 ]. Respondents expressing different priorities for national health care policies than for their individual health insurance would be in cognitive dissonance, unless they made a conscious, clear distinction between the levels, in which case the dissonance is resolved.…”

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Personal needs versus national needs: public attitudes regarding health care priorities at the personal and national levels

Kaplan

Baron‐Epel

2015

Isr J Health Policy Res

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BackgroundMany stakeholders have little or no confidence in the ability of the public to express their opinions on health policy issues. The claim often arises that lay people prioritize according to their own personal experiences and may lack the broad perspective necessary to understand the needs of the population at large. In order to test this claim empirically, this study compares the public’s priorities regarding personal insurance to their priorities regarding allocation of national health resources. Thus, the study should shed light on the extent to which the public’s priorities at the national level are a reflection of their priorities at the personal level.MethodsA telephone survey was conducted with a representative sample of the Israeli adult population aged 18 and over (n = 1,225). The public’s priorities were assessed by asking interviewees to assume that they were the Minister of Health and from this point of view allocate an additional budget among various health areas. Their priorities at the personal level were assessed by asking interviewees to choose preferred items for inclusion in their personal supplementary health insurance.ResultsOver half of the respondents (54%) expressed different personal and national priorities. In multivariable logistic analysis, “population group” was the only variable found to be statistically significant; Jews were 1.8 times more likely than Arabs to give a similar response to both questions. Income level was of borderline significance.ConclusionsAt least half of the population was able to differentiate between their personal needs and national policy needs. We do not advocate a decision-making process based on polls or referendums. However, we believe that people should be allowed to express their priorities regarding national policy issues, and that decision-makers should consider these as one of the factors used to determine policy decisions.

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“…how much of a chance each party has of winning) and TOVD. Kirkpatrick (1972) has found that some American voters delay their vote decisions when they prefer one candidate but expect another to win. This finding is compatible with crosspressure theory (see Lazarsfeld et al, 1948Lazarsfeld et al, , 1954, which posits that the existence of conflicting determinants of behaviour can lead to avoidance of decision-making and fluctuation of opinion, as well as cognitive balance theory (Heider, 1946), which argues that incompatible affects and cognitions can produce psychological tensions that lead to a delay in TOVD.…”

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Voter sincerity and the time-of-voting-decision

McGregor¹

2012

Electoral Studies

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Political Attitudes and Behavior: Some Consequences of Attitudinal Ordering

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Explaining Time of Vote Decision: The Socio-Structural, Attitudinal, and Contextual Determinants of Late Deciding

Explaining Time of Vote Decision: The Socio-Structural, Attitudinal, and Contextual Determinants of Late Deciding

Personal needs versus national needs: public attitudes regarding health care priorities at the personal and national levels

Voter sincerity and the time-of-voting-decision

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