Causes of Split Ticket Voting
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- Created on: 19-05-14 13:45
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- Causes of Split Ticket Voting
- The incumbency factor
- This is where 'pork barreling' incumbents are likely to be reelected regardless of votes for other offices
- In 2012 Florida voters elected Democrats to federal government and Republicans to state legislatures
- This is where 'pork barreling' incumbents are likely to be reelected regardless of votes for other offices
- Balancing theory
- Voters find all parties to be too extreme so the split their ticket to create a balanced ideological government
- In 1988 Dukakis and Bush were seen as quite extreme in ideology and 25% split their tickets
- Voters find all parties to be too extreme so the split their ticket to create a balanced ideological government
- Partisan dealignment
- Voters choose candidates rather than parties so this results in split ticket voting
- In 1980 28% of voters split, this could have been because of the appeal of Reagan to all voters
- Voters choose candidates rather than parties so this results in split ticket voting
- Cognitive Madisonianism
- Voters want different parties in power to encourage checks and balances and limited government
- This may have happened in 1972 when 30% of voters split
- Voters want different parties in power to encourage checks and balances and limited government
- Separation theory
- Voters see the parties as having different strengths and weaknesses and balance these out with a split ticket
- The Democrats were elected in 1976 as a 'tax and spend party' for president, but 25% split their tickets to support low lax Republicans
- This also occurred in 2012 when Democrats were wanted for welfare merits and Republicans wanted the cost of government to be low
- Voters see the parties as having different strengths and weaknesses and balance these out with a split ticket
- The incumbency factor
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