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First and Foremost - Understanding and optimising the electoral participation of first time voters

首先也是最重要的 - 了解和优化首次选民的选举参与

基本信息

批准号：
ES/S000100/1
负责人：
Michael Bruter
金额：
$ 72.55万
依托单位：
London School of Economics and Political Science
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS000100%2F1
关键词：
First Foremost Understanding optimising electoral

项目摘要

First times are moments that many never forget. According to Bruter and Harrison (2017), 73% of British people, 82% of Americans, and 90% of South Africans remember their first vote. The existing literature has also confirmed the long-term importance of that first electoral experience. Butler and Stokes (1971) showed that electoral choice in the first two elections largely determines future vote. Franklin (2004) and Coppock and Green's (2016) works show how turnout at the first opportunity may start a habituation process. Lodge, Gottfried at al. (2014) and Bruter and Harrison (2017) go even further and find that voting in the first two elections of their lives will likely make citizens regular participants, whilst abstaining in both may lead them to become chronic abstentionists instead. First elections thus determine likely electoral turnout and behaviour for much of people's lives, and First and Foremost dedicates systematic attention to the way new voters experience them, the psychological, institutional, and political determinants of their behaviour, and potential institutional responses.First and Foremost is a fully piloted empirical comparative project based on mixed quantitative and qualitative methods which focuses on characterising the experience of citizens' first vote, understanding the psychological, institutional, and contextual factors that impede or improve their likely participation, satisfaction, and likelihood to participate in future elections. We also assess how Election Management Bodies can use the opportunity of this first vote to improve potential first time voters' engagement and satisfaction notably by experimentally testing very specific instruments directed at first time voters. The project features a unique collaboration with Election Management Bodies in the UK, Australia, South Africa, France and the USA to ensure the highest level of impact of our proposed work.At the heart of our model is the idea that whilst youth participation is a challenge, a citizen's first vote is also a unique opportunity. We use psychological research on other 'first times' - from sexuality to alcohol and parenthood - to understand how the first time dynamics can be best adapted to the question of the first vote. The project will answer the following research question: How is a young person's first election experienced, what are the personal, institutional, and contextual determinants of potential first time voters' emotions, attitudes (satisfaction with the electoral process, efficacy, alienation), and turnout in their first and subsequently second election? It relies on four methodological elements: 1) a panel-study survey of people reaching electoral franchise for the first time, 2) focus groups, 3) election diaries, and 4) experiments and field experiments on the impact of measures aimed to make a first election special and successful.The project makes impact a priority, predominantly focusing on three key avenues to translate our research findings into political solutions and engage users with our research from its conception and organisation to the implementation of its most important findings: collaboration with leading Electoral Commissions/Election Management Bodies as well as Inter-Governmental Organisations involved in the support for electoral democracy; collaboration with think tanks which are concerned with youth engagement and participation; collaboration with leading media outlets with a strong audience amongst young citizens.

第一次是许多人永远不会忘记的时刻。根据布鲁特和哈里森(2017)的数据，73%的英国人、82%的美国人和90%的南非人记得他们的第一次投票。现有文献也证实了第一次选举经验的长期重要性。巴特勒和斯托克斯(1971)表明，前两次选举中的选举选择在很大程度上决定了未来的投票。富兰克林(2004)和科波克和格林(2016)的著作表明，一有机会就参加投票可能会启动一个习惯化过程。洛奇，戈特弗里德在艾尔。布鲁特和哈里森(2014)和哈里森(2017)走得更远，他们发现，在人生的前两次选举中投票可能会让公民成为定期参与者，而在两次选举中都弃权可能会导致他们成为长期禁欲的人。因此，第一次选举决定了人们生活中大部分时间可能的选举投票率和行为，首先也是最重要的是系统地关注新选民体验他们的方式，他们行为的心理、制度和政治决定因素，以及潜在的制度反应。首先，也是最重要的是一个全面试点的实证比较项目，基于混合的定量和定性方法，重点描述公民第一次投票的经历，了解阻碍或提高他们参与未来选举的可能性、满意度和可能性的心理、制度和背景因素。我们还评估选举管理机构如何利用第一次投票的机会，特别是通过试验性地测试针对第一次选民的非常具体的工具，来提高潜在的首次选民的参与度和满意度。该项目与英国、澳大利亚、南非、法国和美国的选举管理机构进行了独特的合作，以确保我们拟议的工作产生最高水平的影响。我们模式的核心理念是，尽管青年参与是一种挑战，但公民的第一次投票也是一种独特的机会。我们通过对其他“第一次”的心理学研究--从性、酒精到为人父母--来理解第一次的动态如何才能更好地适应第一次投票的问题。该项目将回答以下研究问题：年轻人的第一次选举是如何经历的，潜在的第一次选举选民的情绪、态度(对选举过程、效力、疏离感的满意度)和投票率在第一次和随后的第二次选举中的个人、制度和背景决定因素是什么？它依赖于四个方法要素：1)对首次获得选举权的人进行小组研究调查，2)焦点小组，3)选举日记，4)旨在使第一次选举特别和成功的措施的影响的试验和实地试验。该项目将影响作为优先事项，主要集中在三个关键途径，将我们的研究成果转化为政治解决方案，并让用户参与我们的研究，从其概念和组织到实施其最重要的结果：与主要的选举委员会/选举管理机构以及参与支持选举民主的政府间组织合作；与关注青年参与和参与的智囊团合作；与主要媒体合作，在青年公民中拥有强大的受众。