GOVN 444 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prolongation, Youth Vote In The United States, Scottish Independence Referendum, 2014
16 Oct 2018
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Factors influencing vote choice: social identities, class, social income, level of education, does not matter that much in canada, but has been re-evaluated to be an important factor in voter behavior, normative beliefs. Ideological orientation: fundamental beliefs and values, party attachments, what party do you feel attached too, partisanship, economic conditions, people vote with their wallet, how they are doing economically. Issues of the day i. e. terrorism: perceptions of party leaders. Issue attitudes: evaluation of leaders, a lot of emphasis on this by the media. Identify with their party most of the time, but less strongly attached and may vote for another party in some elections: visitors. Infrequent or temporary identifiers: non-identifiers, claim no attachment to any political party, liberals most party identifiers in partisans in 20th century, but in 21st century the liberals have surged ahead. Conservatives: conservative vote strongly driven by basic values and beliefs (social conservatism, similar to reform/ca but not pcs.
