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Voting Behaviour Flashcards

1
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A cross of the ballot box is an implicit statement of social identity?

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Harrop and Miller

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What were the 3 processes outlined by the Colombia Study?

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Differentiation, Transmission and Contact

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What is Differentiation?

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When government policy has the same effect on two individuals however they make different electoral choices

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What is Transmission?

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This is when political values and attitudes are handed down between generations

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What has Transmission said to have reinforced?

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Class- Based voting

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What is Contact?

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Individuals must spend time with people in their social group in order for the spread of political beliefs

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What is it called when 2 differing forms of contact effect an individual?

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Cross-pressures

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What points of evaluation are there for the Colombia study?

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  1. Globalisation may cause an increase in cross pressures
  2. this increase in cross pressures therefore could lead to an increase in voter apathy as the centralisation of the parties makes it too much work to make up their minds
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What are the differing purposes of government Satori considered?

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Reflection and Representation

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What is Reflection?

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This is where the social groups are reflected in make up of parliament

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What is Representation?

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This is where the social groups are represented

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What is the evaluation of Satori’s reflection and representation?

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New Labour may reflect the working class however may not representation their needs in parliament (also consider this with UKIP)

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What about 3rd Party defection?

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Evans stated that if this increased then class based voting would decrease

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Evaluation of Evans’s 3rd Party defection idea?

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UKIP and working class vote is strongly aligned currently.

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As a result of WW2, what increased, and who said it?

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Evans stated that social mobility increased due to the increase in affluence

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Evaluation of the increase in social mobility?

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This paired with transmission could cause the decline of the class based voting

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What is the Embourgeoisiement Hypothesis?

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As a result of increased affluence, the majority of society holds middle class values

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Evaluation of the Embourgeoisiement Hypothesis? (and who?)

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This places heavy importance on material wealth and negate other important influences - Evans

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Dunleavy?

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New class system based on if you are more reliant on public or private sector (house, job, healthcare etc.)

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Evaluation of Dunleavy?

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Isn’t this just a more sophisticated version of class based voting?

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Whitely?

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‘The social account of electoral behaviour is clearly obsolete’

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22
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Evaluation of class based research?

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People lie about which class they are in

23
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Sylvestor said…

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The 2010 election would be decided at the school gate

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What was the election results with regard to women and the 3 main parties?

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There was little difference between the 3 main parties for women

25
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Which parties are men more likely to vote for?

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BNP, SNP and UKIP

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When are women more likely to decide who to vote for?

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Nearer to the election, they are more likely to be undecided

27
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Campbell?

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The ‘mumsnet’ election puts all women in one box which is damaging to womens issues

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When did class voting fall in the UK? who?

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When Labour moved to the centre, Anderson and Heath

29
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according to Heath and Anderson does class voting persist?

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Yes to some degree

30
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Inglehart?

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The erosion of class based communities and increased individualisation of the voter has caused the decrease in class voting

31
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In response to Inglehart?

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Heath and Anderson state that there is actually very little individualisation of the voter, they did research

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What did Evans and Tilley find?

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They found that in tracking manifesto promises and the perception of parties, there is a higher level of class based voting than previously thought

33
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What other factor did Evans and Tilley think influenced voting?

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Valence issues

34
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Why did E&T think there was increase in central parties?

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Due to the increase in the class position of the electorate

35
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what does Heath say is the largest social cleavage that effects voting?

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Ethic voting

36
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which is more important ethnicity or class?

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They are interlinking, and one affects the other

37
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Does Religion affect voting? Who?

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Yes, Berkowitz

38
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How does Religion interact with Class? who?

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In the middle class religion will be a higher indicator of who you are likely to vote for rather than if you were working class - Berkowitz

39
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who do Catholics tend to vote for?

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They are anti tory!

40
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Who could valence issues and class overlap? Who?

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Pocket book evaluations of governments competence affected by the class that the individual is in - Evans and Chzhan

41
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Natcen about the number of working class people?

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3rd of people saying they are working class this is at the same level it was in the 1986

42
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1975 level of ABs that voted Conservative compared with the 2015 level?

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1975 - 56%

2015 - 43%

43
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1975 level of DEs that voted Labour compared to 2015 (and 2001)?

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1975- 57%
2015 - 41%
2001 - 55%

44
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2015 private sector workers that voted Conservative?

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43%

45
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2015 public sector workers that voter Labour?

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36%

46
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Ethnic minorities (all) voted Labour?

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68%

47
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Evans, about factors which affect voting decisions?

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Voting not a decision making process rather a predetermined expression of the important political elements which predispose the voter to a party of a candidate

48
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A reason for the increase in social mobility, who?

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Evans - the increase in education

49
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Inglehart?

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Post-Materialist value change, now value things more such as ethics, morals and quality of life due to the increase in affluence.

50
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Social standing can correlate to the voters perception of policy?

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Evans

51
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Campbell (about who dominated affairs)?

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They were male dominated

52
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What is Evans and Tilley approach to voting behaviour?

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Top down

53
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Muslim effect on voting?

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There is no Muslim turnout

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