Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election
This article puts Down’s instrumental voter model (IVM) to a formal test using data of the 2017 Chilean national elections. It aims at two novel exercises in the research in the calculus of voting. Using a brand-new questionnaire with indicators on instrumental and consumption motivations for voting...
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| description | This article puts Down’s instrumental voter model (IVM) to a formal test using data of the 2017 Chilean national elections. It aims at two novel exercises in the research in the calculus of voting. Using a brand-new questionnaire with indicators on instrumental and consumption motivations for voting, we reassess the voting equation in Santiago de Chile. Furthermore, we analyse whether instrumental and consumption motivations have distinctive effects for individuals with different socio-demographic characteristics. Our results show that they do: women, younger, lower educated, and unmarried citizens are more responsive to both instrumental and consumption motivations. Moreover, the factors of the IVM travel better to Santiago de Chile than those of the consumption model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7aaaa4c48b8a407c9888e439e628948d2022-12-21T18:40:01ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Politics in Latin America1866-802X1868-48902020-04-011210.1177/1866802X20913886Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential ElectionAndrés Santana0José Ramón Montero1José Rama2 Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Department of Political Economy, King’s College London, London, United KingdomThis article puts Down’s instrumental voter model (IVM) to a formal test using data of the 2017 Chilean national elections. It aims at two novel exercises in the research in the calculus of voting. Using a brand-new questionnaire with indicators on instrumental and consumption motivations for voting, we reassess the voting equation in Santiago de Chile. Furthermore, we analyse whether instrumental and consumption motivations have distinctive effects for individuals with different socio-demographic characteristics. Our results show that they do: women, younger, lower educated, and unmarried citizens are more responsive to both instrumental and consumption motivations. Moreover, the factors of the IVM travel better to Santiago de Chile than those of the consumption model.https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X20913886 |
| spellingShingle | Andrés Santana José Ramón Montero José Rama Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election Journal of Politics in Latin America |
| title | Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election |
| title_full | Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election |
| title_fullStr | Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election |
| title_short | Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election |
| title_sort | reassessing downs testing the influence of voters characteristics in a chilean presidential election |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X20913886 |
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