Between first and second order: A comparison of voting behaviour in European and local elections in Britain
Between first and second order: A comparison of voting behaviour in European and local elections in Britain
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一阶和二阶之间：欧洲和英国地方选举投票行为的比较
DOI：
10.1111/1475-6765.00454
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
J. Curtice
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作者：
A. Heath;I. McLean;B. Taylor;J. Curtice
在英国，地方选举和欧洲选举都可以被视为二阶选举。然而，选民们认为，欧洲选举的风险甚至比地方选举更小，他们的行为与此一致：选民更有可能参加地方选举，他们更有可能“分裂选票”，他们更有可能报告说，他们投票的问题具体到二阶竞技场。地方、欧洲和国家背景下政党选择的逻辑回归证实了这一点。国家因素在地方选举中所起的作用较小，有一些证据表明，选民受到当地执政党的记录的影响。看来，欧洲选举中的投票更具表达性，而不是地方或国家选举中的投票。
In Britain, both local elections and European elections can be regarded as second-order. However, voters believe that even less is at stake in European elections than in local elections, and their behaviour is congruent with this: voters are more likely to turn out in local elections, they are more likely to ‘split their ticket’ they are more likely to report that they vote on issues specific to the second-order arena. Logistic regression of party choices in the local, European and national contexts confirms this. National considerations played less part in the local election and there was some evidence that voters were influenced by the record of the locally-incumbent party. It appears that voting in the European elections has more of an expressive character, and is less instrumental than that in either local or national elections.