Voting rights and intergenerational justice: framing effects and voter attitudes

IF 0.4 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2018-10-15 DOI:10.14267/CJSSP.2018.2.02

B. Janky, A. Gulyás

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Abstract

We investigate attitudes toward voting reforms that attribute greater weight to younger generations in a survey experiment. The main assumption of this research is that due to the distortions caused by elite discourse, voters are not aware of the intergenerational inequality of redistribution, thus attempts to change the voting system – that currently provides an equal vote to each voter, thereby maintaining inequality – would not get sufficient public support. After providing a review of potential voting reforms for improving intergenerational justice, we present results from an online survey sample of one thousand respondents. The data show that presenting the arguments for intergenerational justice increases the sensitivity of younger voters towards the political rights of young generations, but does not improve the acceptance of such reforms among the middle-aged and the elderly.

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投票权与代际公正:框架效应与选民态度

在一项调查实验中，我们调查了人们对投票改革的态度，这些态度将更大的权重赋予了年轻一代。这项研究的主要假设是，由于精英话语造成的扭曲，选民没有意识到再分配的代际不平等，因此试图改变投票制度——目前为每个选民提供平等的选票，从而保持不平等——不会得到足够的公众支持。在对改善代际正义的潜在投票改革进行审查后，我们展示了1000名受访者的在线调查样本的结果。数据显示，提出代际正义的论点提高了年轻选民对年轻一代政治权利的敏感性，但并没有提高中老年人对此类改革的接受度。

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Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy SOCIOLOGY-

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0.50

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24 weeks

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