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- Title
Los factores de la ecuación del voto: un análisis empírico.
- Authors
López, Teresa Mata
- Abstract
The literature on the phenomenon of abstention has shown that participation is determined by certain individual and contextual factors. However, the empirical studies conducted using rational choice theory have not taken these contributions into account. Some authors, more focused on understanding the factors that should be included in the voting equation, have concluded that citizens vote because they overestimate the value of their vote. But is this overestimation random? What does it depend on? The aim of this study, based on the 2008 post-election survey data of the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), is to turn the traditional factors of the instrumental voter equation into dependent variables, thereby discovering some of their determinants. The results show that the distribution of these factors is not random and that it does not always match what was predicted.
- Subjects
SPAIN; VOTING abstention; POLITICAL participation; RATIONAL choice theory; POLITICAL sociology; VOTING; POLITICAL attitudes; VOTER turnout
- Publication
Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2013, Issue 143, p47
- ISSN
0210-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5477/cis/reis.143.47