Public-Regardingness as a Value Premise in Voting Behavior
Public-Regardingness as a Value Premise in Voting Behavior
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公众关注度作为投票行为的价值前提
DOI：
10.2307/1953287
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发表时间：
1964
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
E. Banfield
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作者：
James F. Wilson;E. Banfield
我们在这里关心的是个人对政治体制依恋的性质，更具体地说，是对某些阶层选民所作选择的价值前提的关注。我们的假设是，某些阶层的选民(暂时被定义为在种族和收入线上构成的“亚文化”)比其他阶层更倾向于将他们的选择建立在某种“公共利益”或“社区福利”的概念上。换一种方式来说，一些阶层的投票行为往往更多地是公开的，而不是私人的(自我或家庭)。为了检验这一假设，有必要检查投票行为，在这种情况下，人们可以说某个投票不可能是私人关心的。地方债券和其他支出公投提出了这样的情况：有时可以说，投票赞成某一特定支出提案与狭隘地设想的某一选民的自身利益不相容。如果选民仍然投了这样的一票，如果有证据表明他的投票在某种意义上不是非理性的或偶然的，那么必须推定他的行为是基于某种“公共利益”的概念。
Our concern here is with the nature of the individual's attachment to the body politic and, more particularly, with the value premises underlying the choices made by certain classes of voters. Our hypothesis is that some classes of voters (provisionally defined as “subcultures” constituted on ethnic and income lines) are more disposed than others to rest their choices on some conception of “the public interest” or the “welfare of the community.” To say the same thing in another way, the voting behavior of some classes tends to be more public-regarding and less private- (self- or family-) regarding than that of others. To test this hypothesis it is necessary to examine voting behavior in situations where one can say that a certain vote could not have been private-regarding. Local bond and other expenditure referenda present such situations: it is sometimes possible to say that a vote in favor of a particular expenditure proposal is incompatible with a certain voter's self-interest narrowly conceived. If the voter nevertheless casts such a vote and if there is evidence that his vote was not in some sense irrational or accidental, then it must be presumed that his action was based on some conception of “the public interest.”