Cultural theory, rejection of cultural bias, and party preference
What explains party preference? Ideology and values do but these explanations are undertheorized. We offer grid-group cultural theory (CT) to provide a theory of ideology and values to explain party preference. We aim to demonstrate the value of an operationalization of CT that includes rejection of...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/13540688211071065 2024-09-15T18:13:52+00:00 Cultural theory, rejection of cultural bias, and party preference Olli, Eero Swedlow, Brendon 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13540688211071065 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13540688211071065 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/13540688211071065 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Party Politics volume 29, issue 2, page 359-373 ISSN 1354-0688 1460-3683 journal-article 2022 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211071065 2024-07-15T04:31:15Z What explains party preference? Ideology and values do but these explanations are undertheorized. We offer grid-group cultural theory (CT) to provide a theory of ideology and values to explain party preference. We aim to demonstrate the value of an operationalization of CT that includes rejection of cultural bias (rejection of political values and beliefs) to explain party preference. Our study builds on research that recognizes the importance of negative partisanship and of rejecting cultural biases and other values in party choice. We analyze the influence of cultural biases on party preference in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. We find that respondents’ top two cultural biases explain up to a third of the variation in respondents’ party support in these Nordic multi-party systems and that rejection of cultural biases is an important determinant of party preference. We discuss how our analysis can be extended to other party systems including those with only two major parties. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications Party Politics 135406882110710 |
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What explains party preference? Ideology and values do but these explanations are undertheorized. We offer grid-group cultural theory (CT) to provide a theory of ideology and values to explain party preference. We aim to demonstrate the value of an operationalization of CT that includes rejection of cultural bias (rejection of political values and beliefs) to explain party preference. Our study builds on research that recognizes the importance of negative partisanship and of rejecting cultural biases and other values in party choice. We analyze the influence of cultural biases on party preference in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. We find that respondents’ top two cultural biases explain up to a third of the variation in respondents’ party support in these Nordic multi-party systems and that rejection of cultural biases is an important determinant of party preference. We discuss how our analysis can be extended to other party systems including those with only two major parties. |
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