Who cares about the culture war? Evidence from a vote choice conjoint experiment

IF 2.3 2区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE
James Breckwoldt
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Abstract

Despite their recent prominence, it is unclear how electorally important new culture war topics (such as statues, LGBT+ representation in popular culture, diversity training, transgender athletes, curriculum diversity and university free speech) are for voters, particularly cross-pressured ones. To address this, this study conducts an original vote choice conjoint experiment in the United Kingdom to test the extent to which people base their vote on these new culture war issues when they are included in a policy platform alongside long-standing economic and non-economic issues. I find that culture war issues are consistently important for those with more conservative cultural beliefs, whilst those with right-traditionalist and, to a lesser extent, left-traditionalist values prioritize them when cross-pressured. These results highlight the political dynamics of contemporary culture wars and vote choice in multi-dimensional elections, as well as the value of studying political beliefs relative to each other.
谁在乎文化战争?来自投票选择联合实验的证据
尽管这些新文化战争话题最近备受关注,但目前尚不清楚它们在选举中有多重要(比如雕像、流行文化中的LGBT+代表、多元化培训、跨性别运动员、课程多样性和大学言论自由),对选民来说,尤其是对那些受到跨性别压力的选民来说。为了解决这个问题,本研究在英国进行了一项原始的投票选择联合实验,以测试当人们将这些新文化战争问题与长期存在的经济和非经济问题一起纳入政策平台时,他们的投票基于这些新文化战争问题的程度。我发现,文化战争问题对于那些拥有更保守文化信仰的人来说一直很重要,而那些拥有右翼传统主义价值观的人,以及在较小程度上拥有左翼传统主义价值观的人,在交叉压力下会优先考虑这些问题。这些结果突出了当代文化战争和多维选举中的投票选择的政治动态,以及研究政治信仰相对于彼此的价值。
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Electoral Studies
Electoral Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
3.40
自引率
13.00%
发文量
82
审稿时长
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.
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