Why do LGB vote left? Insight into left-wing voting of lesbian, gay and bisexual citizens in Austria

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Electoral Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI:10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102727

Michael Hunklinger , Philipp Kleer

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Abstract

Previous research on the voting behavior of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) in Europe showed that LGB people favor left-wing or progressive parties (Turnbull-Dugarte 2020; Hunklinger 2021; Wurthmann 2023). Furthermore, Turnbull-Dugarte (2021) showed that LGB voters are, possibly due to their socialization, supportive of social liberalism and progressive issues. As we know from classic voting theory, there are different explanations for voting behavior, e.g. issue orientation, candidate and party preferences. This paper explores why LGB persons vote for left-wing parties in Austria. We use a sample among LGB persons conducted upfront the 2019 national elections in Austria. We test to what extent issue and candidate orientations (including LGB issues) as well as group identity affect LGB persons' intended voting behavior for left-wing parties in Austria. Our results show that instead of group-specific issue orientations, a general issue orientation, and socio-cultural attitudes are crucial for LGB persons to vote for left-wing parties.

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为什么女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋投票向左？透视奥地利女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋公民的左翼投票情况

以往对欧洲女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）投票行为的研究表明，LGB 人倾向于左翼或进步政党（Turnbull-Dugarte 2020 年；Hunklinger 2021 年；Wurthmann 2023 年）。此外，Turnbull-Dugarte（2021 年）还表明，可能由于社会化的原因，男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者选民支持社会自由主义和进步议题。正如我们从经典投票理论中了解到的那样，投票行为有不同的解释，如问题导向、候选人和政党偏好。本文探讨了奥地利男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者投票支持左翼政党的原因。我们在奥地利 2019 年全国大选前对男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者进行了抽样调查。我们检验了议题和候选人取向（包括女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性者议题）以及群体认同在多大程度上影响了女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性者对奥地利左翼政党的预期投票行为。我们的结果表明，对于男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者来说，投票支持左翼政党的关键因素不是特定群体的问题导向，而是一般问题导向和社会文化态度。

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Electoral Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.40

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13.00%

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67 days

期刊介绍： Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping, interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences. Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse approaches. It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses.