Factors Affecting Voting Behaviour Flashcards
Name the for factors that affect INDIVIDUAL voting behaviour (5)
Policies-manifesto
Key issues- brexit
Performance in office- in prior years
Leadership-leaders must convince voters they are capable of running the country
Image-whole party (labour-anti-Semitic)
Tactical voting- prevent worse candidate from getting in
Define embourgeoisement
The so called movement into the middle class
Due to changes of jobs and levels of home ownership
Define class de-alignment
Less correlation between social class and the political parties
Define partisan alignment
When voters were loyal to one party unquestionably
Define float/swing voters
No specific political party and will often ‘float’ between the parties
What is the opposite of stability
Volatility
Explain Milbrath and Goel (1977)
Voters can be separated into three groups: gladiators, spectators, apathetic
How many people are part of labours political party in 2018
540,000
How many are part of conservatives political party in 2018
124,000
What did Pulzer say
‘Class is the basis of British Politics. All else is just embellishment and detail’
Explain stereotypical relationship between classes
Conservative - AB voters
Labour- C2DE
From 1945-80 social class was the ____ _______________ of voting behaviour
Key determinant
What is a good word to describe the Labour Party (p_______)
Progressive
Where in the world is there a major Christian party
Germany- Angela Merkal
Christian Democrats
What are the traditional correlations between parties and religion
Anglican=tories
Non conformists= liberal
Catholic= labour
