POLS 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Lazarsfeld, Anthony Downs, Voting Behavior

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2130
• Professor: Black Roberts

Document Summary

Dominance and decline chapter 1/2 : the sociological model: Voting behavior that mimicked the marketplace: voters voted for their favorite party like they were purchasing a product. Strongest indicators were social economic status, community, and religion. Does not leave much room for politics. Candidates and issues lay a small role in vote choice. Index of political predisposition (ipp) : measurement of why people vote. Cross pressure: people may take on a variety of social identity, and these may not be mutually reinforcing when it comes to vote choice. Religious affliction, for example, may push voters in one direction, but their regional identity might push them in an opposite direction. Breakage effect: when a citizens primary group are not homogenous politically, the dominant partisan climate of opinion in the community will break through: the social psychological model: It was created to challenge the sociological model as the ipp was not efficient when gathering a census of the whole country.