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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ftaboakademicris:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/addd4353-412e-4e69-9074-7e6ec4ee8c25 2024-04-28T08:25:49+00:00 Retrospective voting and electoral volatility: A Nordic perspective Söderlund, Peter 2008 https://research.abo.fi/en/publications/addd4353-412e-4e69-9074-7e6ec4ee8c25 und unknown https://research.abo.fi/en/publications/addd4353-412e-4e69-9074-7e6ec4ee8c25 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Söderlund , P 2008 , ' Retrospective voting and electoral volatility: A Nordic perspective ' , Scandinavian Political Studies , vol. 31 , no. 2 , pp. 217–240 . article 2008 ftaboakademicris 2024-04-02T16:55:37Z 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 Åbo Akademi University Research Portal |
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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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Söderlund , P 2008 , ' Retrospective voting and electoral volatility: A Nordic perspective ' , Scandinavian Political Studies , vol. 31 , no. 2 , pp. 217–240 . |
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