Conditionality of Decisions of the Voter by his Position in Social Networks
Research Article
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Sadowski I. 2020. Conditionality of Decisions of the Voter by his Position in Social Networks — Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. Vol. 8. No. 3. P. 98-107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2020.8.3.7489
Abstract
The article is devoted to theoretical and empirical political choice, socially determined behaviour of the electorate in Poland. The author considers the problem of the influence of the voter’s environment through the prism of taking into account variables relating to group identity and social status in society. The research is based on the method of diachronic analysis of the process of synchronization of beliefs of different party electorates during voting. With the help of representative data, the hypothesis that actors operating in multi-level networks cannot be considered outside their interdependence is approved and scientifically substantiated. The results obtained encourage the search for further confirmation of these conclusions, especially taking into account the following relevant variables.
Keywords:
voting model of the Polish electorate, political parties, communication, interdependence, mutual influence, group identity, homogeneity of social relations of poles
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Bartels L. M. (2010). The Study of Electoral Behaviour. The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behaviour. Ed. by J. E. Leighley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. P. 239–261.
Berelson B. R., Lazarsfeld P. F., McPhee W. N. (1954). Voting: а Study оf Opinion Formation in a Presidential Campaign. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 416 p.
Blau P. M. (1977). A Macrosociological Theory of Social Structure. The American Journal of Sociology. № 83 (1). P. 26–54.
Campbell Angus, Converse Philip E., Miller Warren E., Stokes Donald E. ([1960] 1976). The American Voter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 576 p.
Downs A. (1957). An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper. 282 p.
Huckfeldt R., Sprague J. (1987). Networks in Context: The Social Flow of Political Information. American Political Science Review. № 81 (4). P. 1197–1216.
Huckfeldt R., Johnson P. E., Sprague J. (2004). Political Disagreement. The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 274 p.
Huckfeldt R. (2014). Networks, Contexts, and the Combinatorial Dynamics of Democratic Politics. Advances in Political Psychology. № 35 (S1). P. 43–68.
Jackson J. E., Mach B. W., Sadowski I. (2018). Measuring Influence in Political Networks. Individuals and their social contexts. Ed. by B. Mach, A. Manterys, I. Sadowski. Warsaw: IPS PAS. P. 65–84.
Lazarsfeld P., Berelson B., Gaudet H. (1944). The People’s Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign. New York: Columbia University Press. 178 p.
Mach B. W., Sadowski I. (2018). Ludzie w sieciach. Znaczenie otoczenia społecznego dla funkcjonowania jednostki. Warszawa: ISP PAN. 256 p.
Rosenbaum Paul R., Rubin Donald B. 1983. The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Effects. Biometrika. № 70 (1). P. 41–55.
Article
Received: 04.10.2019
Accepted: 25.09.2020
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Sadowski, I. (2020) ’Conditionality of Decisions of the Voter by his Position in Social Networks’, Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika, 8(3), pp. 98-107. doi: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2020.8.3.7489.
Section
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Publisher: Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)