Party Support, Values, and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity
Party Support, Values, and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity
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DOI：
10.1111/pops.12431
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Hartl, Jakob
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作者：
Flesken, Anaid;Hartl, Jakob
选举进程的合法性对于巩固民主至关重要。在这里，我们专注于个人的选举诚信（IPEI）的看法，并试图了解什么因素可以解释不同程度的IPEI。特别是，我们使用的第六波世界价值观调查（2010-14），以研究如何反独裁价值观影响个人的方向性偏见，驱动的政党支持，在评估选举的完整性。结果显示，IPEI确实依赖于政党支持和反独裁价值观的力量的相互作用。然而，增加后者并不会导致赢家和输家之间的廉正评价趋于一致，而这可能是在反独裁价值观驱使选民更仔细地监测和评价选举进程的假设下所预期的。相反，它导致选举赢家和输家之间更大的两极分化。我们解释的结果参考动机推理文献有偏见的信息处理：虽然反独裁的信念导致人们获得更多的信息在选举过程中，他们的政治倾向偏向他们的阅读这些信息，这实际上导致更强的两极分化的看法。
The legitimacy of the electoral process is crucial for the consolidation of democracy. We here focus on individual perceptions of electoral integrity (IPEI) and seek to understand what factors can explain different degrees of IPEI. In particular, we use the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010-14) to examine how antiauthoritarian values affect individuals' directional bias, driven by political party support, in evaluating electoral integrity. The results show that IPEI do depend on an interaction of political party support and the strength of antiauthoritarian values. However, the addition of the latter does not lead to a convergence of integrity evaluations among winners and losers, as may be expected under the assumption that antiauthoritarian values drive voters to more carefully monitor and evaluate the electoral process. Instead, it leads to greater polarization between electoral winners and losers. We explain the result with reference to the motivated reasoning literature on biased information processing: While antiauthoritarian convictions lead people to obtain more information on the electoral process, their political leanings bias their reading of this information, which in effect leads to stronger polarization in perceptions.