Political science

Individual's vote the result of a multiplicity of factors

Introduction

This essay argues that an individual's vote is the result of a multiplicity of factors. In making this argument I will tell you about the factors affecting an individual's vote in the UK has changed over time since 1945. Political scientists have usually divided this into two eras: the era of class alignment (1945-1970), and the era of dealignment (1970 onwards). In the era of class alignment class dealignment is a term to describe used to position where members of a social class stop aligning themselves in terms of class and believe that belong to they no longer has some class. An example of this would be if the working class to view began themselves as lower middle class. Class dealignment in Britain took up post-1960s, when people were more likely to pursue tertiary education, have professional jobs and consequently more affluence. Dealignment, in political science, is a process whereby gold trend has large portion of the electorate drop its previous partisan affiliation, without developing a new one to replace it. It is contrasted with realignment.

Discussion

Partisan alignment

Partisan dealignment is quite similar to class dealignment. Partisan dealignment is the process whereby people no longer vote according to their social class (i.e. In the UK, working-class voters voting conservative or liberal democrat instead of labor. This happens as people lose their traditional class loyalties to a particular party. An example would be the barking and Dagenham results in the 2006 local elections, in which a traditional labor area voted for the extreme-right British national party.

The era of dealignment has led to increasing consideration of a range of new factors in affecting an individual's vote, particularly more short term factors. Overall, this means that what influences a person's vote in the UK. Long-term factors are no longer important in explaining voting behaviour in the UK. Many factors can influence the way in which the electorate vote. Long-term factors are those that have a long term influence on the way in which somebody votes.

Among the factors that influence the political choices, occupy an important place ideological and political culture. Any voter of a political leader, first of all, compares with the set of ideological values, which belongs to him, he seems to be the leader selects from among "their own kind."

The emergence of competing ideologies is always connected with the fact that in society there are changes in stratification. The crises, which are the traditional social structures and ideologies of mass consciousness is perceived as the decay of the usual systems of values ??and behaviors. Personality, and the possibility of losing orientation of subjective control over the situation, trying to find them in self-identification with a group to defend them in this community face the reality that has become suddenly strange and hostile.

Some marketers as a separate release of the subjective factor, interest in politics. There is no need to argue that voting behavior depends on whether the voter is included ...