THE EFFECTS OF PARTY SYSTEM ON VOTER ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR.

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THE EFFECTS OF PARTY SYSTEM ON VOTER ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR

RESEARCH QUESTION Does type of party system affect voter attitudes and behavior? Specifically, confidence in government, leaders, the democratic process, voter participation, etc.

PREVIOUS RESEARCH/THEORY Looked at how structural contexts affect voter behavior Looked specifically at associational membership Schofer and Fourcade- Gourinchas (2001) Voter decline in Britain compared to other countries Where voter identification is high, voter turnout will be high, where low, turnout will be low Heath (2007) Political Parties and Confidence in Government Discontent in Two-party systems was much more likely to turn into cynicism and distrust Miller and Listhaug (1990)

DATA SET- WORLD VALUES SURVEY 1995 Coordinated by the World Values Survey Association, located in Stockholm Conducted by social scientists at universities in over 100 countries A worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change

PARTY SYSTEMS Two-Party System Two main parties One wins the majority of votes Ex: U.S. Republicans and Democrats- alternate Multi-Party System Three or more main parties (often with supporting parties No party has a chance of winning majority of votes, thus must form coalitions to put over 50% threshold Ex: Sweden 9 parties represented in parliament

VARIABLES IV Party System 1= Two-Party 2=Multi-Party DV1 Political Participation Scale (from 0-10) DV2 Confidence Scale (from 0-12) CV1 Rating of Political System Scale (from 0-20)

TESTS OF UNIVARIATE NORMALITY Rating of Politic. System Confidence Scale Political Participation Two-Party Skewness Kurtosis Multi-Party Skewness Kurtosis

PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS

RESULTS

POST- ANALYSIS