POL-UA 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuance Communications, Materialism, Conditionality
2 Feb 2017
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Basic argument: voting affected by groups: sociological based voting. Groups: (cid:862)college edu(cid:272)ated whites (cid:448)s. no(cid:374)-college edu(cid:272)ated whites(cid:863) In britain, union members more often vote labour. Democracy as a way to bring groups together. Takes into account more complex moving parts of large socio-demographic votes. Why would you be expected to vote as college-educated instead of something else. Different paths of group based voting: hared e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es: (cid:862)o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863) me(cid:373)(cid:271)ership. People who go through life with similar experiences, are more likely to have similar preferences with what they want the government to do. Even groups with no organization efforts might vote similarly. Students will care more about student debt than those not college educated, or with different experiences. People that speak spanish are more likely to receive information from spanish language news sources: group as refere(cid:374)(cid:272)e poi(cid:374)t: (cid:862) u(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863) me(cid:373)(cid:271)ership. Based o(cid:374) thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g (cid:862)i a(cid:373) a member of group x, i want to know what people like (cid:373)e are doi(cid:374)g(cid:863)
