Retrospective Voting and Electoral Volatility: A Nordic Perspective
This article examines why people vote for the same party, switch parties or move from voting to non‐voting at consecutive elections. By using post‐election survey data from Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the beginning of the 2000s, the main aim is to model the impact of retrospective evaluat...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00203.x 2024-09-15T18:13:48+00:00 Retrospective Voting and Electoral Volatility: A Nordic Perspective Söderlund, Peter 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00203.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9477.2008.00203.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00203.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Scandinavian Political Studies volume 31, issue 2, page 217-240 ISSN 0080-6757 1467-9477 journal-article 2008 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00203.x 2024-09-05T05:08:18Z This article examines why people vote for the same party, switch parties or move from voting to non‐voting at consecutive elections. By using post‐election survey data from Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the beginning of the 2000s, the main aim is to model the impact of retrospective evaluations of party performance while controlling for theoretically relevant variables. The results of the multinomial regression analyses confirm that dissatisfaction with the performance of a party correlates strongly with party defection, and that the relationship is not weakened with the inclusion of variables for general dissatisfaction with the political system and its actors, standard background factors and political variables. This suggests that many voters are concerned with valence issues and value the overall competence of politicians and parties when they are making a decision whom to vote for. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library Scandinavian Political Studies 31 2 217 240 |
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This article examines why people vote for the same party, switch parties or move from voting to non‐voting at consecutive elections. By using post‐election survey data from Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the beginning of the 2000s, the main aim is to model the impact of retrospective evaluations of party performance while controlling for theoretically relevant variables. The results of the multinomial regression analyses confirm that dissatisfaction with the performance of a party correlates strongly with party defection, and that the relationship is not weakened with the inclusion of variables for general dissatisfaction with the political system and its actors, standard background factors and political variables. This suggests that many voters are concerned with valence issues and value the overall competence of politicians and parties when they are making a decision whom to vote for. |
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Retrospective Voting and Electoral Volatility: A Nordic Perspective |
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Retrospective Voting and Electoral Volatility: A Nordic Perspective |
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Retrospective Voting and Electoral Volatility: A Nordic Perspective |
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Retrospective Voting and Electoral Volatility: A Nordic Perspective |
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Retrospective Voting and Electoral Volatility: A Nordic Perspective |
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retrospective voting and electoral volatility: a nordic perspective |
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