The Higher Principle? : An Attempt to Develop a Near Universal Approach to Explaining Voter Turnout through Micro-Macro Interactions

• Autorzy: Michal Nový
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Over the past decade, several authors have tried to explain why people participate in elections by examining both direct and contingent effects of diverse sets of factors. While the direct effects follow a simple logic that some independent variable directly affects turnout, contingent effects work on the assumption that the influence of one explanatory variable differs across varying levels of another explanatory variable. In the previous research, the existence of latter effects has been justified on the basis of more or less convincing stories. An attempt is made here to provide a more general framework, stemming from the question, "At what moment do representative democracies achieve political equality?" From this starting point, the article introduces a near universal approach for understanding contingent effects in voter turnout theory and for developing various hypotheses that may be tested using multilevel models that include cross-level interaction.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Voting decisions; Social interaction; Sociological theories

PL

Decyzje wyborcze; Interakcje społeczne; Teorie socjologiczne

• Czasopismo: Polish Sociological Review
• Rocznik: 2016
• Numer: nr 1 (193)
• Strony: 87--100

Twórcy

autor

Michal Nový

• Masaryk University

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