322 Comparative Voting Behaviour

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What theory of voting behaviour comes from the Columbia School?
Socio-structural theory
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What school does the rational choice theory come from
Chicago
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what 3 conditions are needed for social influence to work (lazarsfeld, berelson and mcphee 1954)
social differentiation, transmissibility and contact
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Which condition did Lipset and Rokkan (1967) NOT suggest was needed for cleavages to emerge?
Revolution
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Who wrote Political Change in Britain and when?
Butler and Stokes 1969
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How are socio-psychological attachments (AKA Party ID) formed?
socialisation and influence from family
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when does the immunisation process happen and what does it cause?
early adulthood - stable and lasting PID
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what can lead to a weak or even no PID
conflicting influences and forces
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what can PID NOT determine
swing from one party to another
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what did Zuckerman 2007 say?
people identifying with a certain party are unlikely to ever vote for their parties main opposition
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who proposed the rational choice theory in 1957
Downs
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what do voters use as short cut to rationally decide their preferred party
ideology
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what 2 things does the theory of the median voter suggest
parties will converge on their ideologies and become more similar
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what is the name of Rabinowitz and MacDonald's theory (1989)
Directional Theory
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