The role of politically relevant attitudes and value orientations in electoral decisions. The Czech Republic in 1996

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Voting behaviour is generally not so much a matter of choosing one party out of a list of all parties on a ballot paper, but rather a choice between a much smaller number of acceptable parties. Typical voting behaviour may be supposed to be a choice between two parties. It is not a matter of a single important or dominant political attitude or value, but rather a complex process involving many different factors, some of which reinforce each other, while others are in contrast or even conflict. This article tries to identify the role of politically relevant values and attitudes in voting behaviour in the Czech Republic. As the results of earlier analysis show that there has been a process of intensive crystallisation of left-right political orientations, this article concentrates primarily on declared left-right orientation (selfpositioning on the left-right axis) and on value-based left-right orientation (as measured by a series of indicators). The analysis of data from research carried out at the end of 1996 showed that declared left-right orientation is a far stronger influence on voting behaviour than is left-right orientation based on socio-economic values. This difference also indicates that an increasing inclination towards left-wing values and the paternalistic state currently presents a certain barrier to open (declared) support for left-wing political parties. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Petr Matějů, 1950-2017

Other Authors

Klára Plecitá, 1971-

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

33 s.

Published

Praha : Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 1997.

Series

Working papers of the research project "Social Trends". (WPST) = Výzkumný projekt "Sociální trendy"; 10/1997

Subjects

rozhodování

sociologie

volby

Česko

1996

ISBN

80-85950-36-7