THE VOTER AS HOMO-OECONOMICUS - AN EMPIRI CAL-TEST OF VOTER BEHAVIOR REGARDING SWISS CANTON CREDIT BILLS

Citation
A. Vatter et R. Nabholz, THE VOTER AS HOMO-OECONOMICUS - AN EMPIRI CAL-TEST OF VOTER BEHAVIOR REGARDING SWISS CANTON CREDIT BILLS, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 36(3), 1995, pp. 484
Citations number
56
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science
ISSN journal
00323470
Volume
36
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-3470(1995)36:3<484:TVAH-A>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Switzerland with its elaborate direct democracy offers one of the worl ds' vastest empirical field for analysis of the political behaviour. T he real political behaviour is easier to be judged at votes on single subjects than at the occasion of elections, as it allows an analysis o n a much more detailed level. The following article intends to contrib ute to the overcoming of previously one-sided concepts of Swiss voting analysis according to aggregate data. At the occasion of six cantonal votes on credits the rational choice and structural hypothesis are be ing tested. The results will be put in the context of previous voting analysis and confirm the influence of the distance-, income- and tax-s train-thesis as well as socio-cultural factors. Occupational category or socio-structural variables, however, proved to be insignificant. Fi nally eight thesis on the use of the economical model of the voter wil l be listed.