The Impact of Political Knowledge on the Voting Decision

被引:1
作者
Heroux-Legault, Maxime [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ British Columbia Okanagan, Dept Econ Philosophy & Polit Sci, 1147 Res Rd, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
来源
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE | 2023年 / 56卷 / 03期
关键词
Canada; voting behaviour; political knowledge; spatial model; cognitive shortcuts; comportement electoral; connaissances politiques; modele spatial; raccourcis cognitifs; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CONJOINT-ANALYSIS; PROXIMITY; SOPHISTICATION; INFORMATION; MODELS; ISSUES; SPECIFICATION; CALCULUS; BEHAVIOR;
D O I
10.1017/S0008423923000410
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
The article addresses ongoing debates in the study of political knowledge and voting behavior. The article identifies significant divergences in previous work which may explain why such debates persist, including in the measurement of political knowledge and the inclusion of confounding variables. The article remedies these issues in an observational study examining how political knowledge affects the impact of spatial considerations and cognitive shortcuts on the vote. The article also contributes the first randomized experiment on this research question in the literature. Using the framework of conjoint analysis, the experiment evaluates how political knowledge affects the impact of spatial considerations and cognitive shortcuts on the vote. The article hypothesizes that political knowledge will increase the impact of spatial considerations on the vote but will not modify the impact of cognitive shortcuts. This expectation is supported in both the observational and experimental results. L'article aborde les debats en cours dans l'etude des connaissances politiques et du comportement electoral. L'article constate des divergences significatives dans les travaux anterieurs qui peuvent expliquer la persistance de ces debats, notamment en ce qui concerne la mesure des connaissances politiques et l'inclusion de variables confondantes. L'article remedie a ces problemes dans le cadre d'une etude d'observation examinant comment les connaissances politiques influencent l'impact des considerations spatiales et des raccourcis cognitifs sur le vote. L'article presente egalement la premiere experience randomisee sur cette question de recherche dans la litterature pertinente. En utilisant le cadre de l'analyse conjointe, l'experimentation evalue comment les connaissances politiques affectent l'impact des considerations spatiales et des raccourcis cognitifs sur le vote. L'article emet l'hypothese que les connaissances politiques augmenteront l'impact des considerations spatiales sur le vote mais ne modifieront pas l'impact des raccourcis cognitifs. Cette hypothese est confirmee par les resultats de l'observation et de l'experimentation.
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