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25 paź 2024 · Voting behavior, like any complex behavior, is influenced by multiple interrelating causes and contributors. Within the framework offered by Schwartz’ Values Theory (Schwartz, 1992), we will investigate to what extent basic personal values can help understand voting.One of the defining features of values is that values are broad goals that guide and motivate behavior by providing criteria of ...
28 lip 2016 · This entry focuses on six major questions concerning the rationality and morality of voting: Is it rational for an individual citizen to vote? Is there a moral duty to vote? Are there moral obligations regarding how citizens vote? Is it justifiable for governments to compel citizens to vote? Is it permissible to buy, trade, and sell votes?
6 maj 2011 · Recent research from social psychology suggests that personal values predict political behavior, such as vote choice. In contrast to previous studies, it is hypothesized in this article that personal values influence voting behavior only indirectly through political value orientation.
To visualize the relationship between moral values and voting behavior, I compute average moral values across groups of respondents who ex-hibit a certain voting pattern. This is done in figure 5. Figure 5A focuses on voting in the 2016 presidential election, conditioned by voting in the 2012 election.
This paper studies the supply of and demand for moral values in recent U.S. presidential elections. Using a combination of large-scale questionnaire data and text analyses, I find support
moral values to election outcomes, both across individuals within counties and across counties within states or commuting zones. The results document that heterogeneity in moral values is systematically related to voting behavior in ways that are predicted by supply-side text analyses.
5 mar 2020 · We present the results of a randomized control trial on the effect of the introduction of formalized property rights on individuals’ moral judgments and, in particular, on utilitarian morality.
