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Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies
Recent developments in Western societies have motivated a growing consideration of the role of negativity in public opinion and political behavior research. In this article, we review the scant (and largely disconnected) scientific literature on negativity and political behavior, merging contributio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35422675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14789299211000187 |
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description | Recent developments in Western societies have motivated a growing consideration of the role of negativity in public opinion and political behavior research. In this article, we review the scant (and largely disconnected) scientific literature on negativity and political behavior, merging contributions from social psychology, public opinion, and electoral research, with a view on developing an integrated theoretical framework for the study of negative voting in contemporary democracies. We highlight that the tendency toward negative voting is driven by three partly overlapping components, namely, (1) an instrumental–rational component characterized by retrospective performance evaluations and rationalization mechanisms, (2) an ideological component grounded on long-lasting political identities, and (3) an affective component, motivated by (negative) attitudes toward parties and candidates. By blueprinting the systematic relationships between negative voting and each of these components in turn, and suggesting multiple research paths, this article aims to stimulate future studies on negative voting in multi-party parliamentary systems to motivate a better understanding of the implications of negativity in voting behavior in contemporary democracies. |
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spelling | pubmed-89981502022-04-12 Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies Garzia, Diego Ferreira da Silva, Frederico Polit Stud Rev State of the Art - Review Article Recent developments in Western societies have motivated a growing consideration of the role of negativity in public opinion and political behavior research. In this article, we review the scant (and largely disconnected) scientific literature on negativity and political behavior, merging contributions from social psychology, public opinion, and electoral research, with a view on developing an integrated theoretical framework for the study of negative voting in contemporary democracies. We highlight that the tendency toward negative voting is driven by three partly overlapping components, namely, (1) an instrumental–rational component characterized by retrospective performance evaluations and rationalization mechanisms, (2) an ideological component grounded on long-lasting political identities, and (3) an affective component, motivated by (negative) attitudes toward parties and candidates. By blueprinting the systematic relationships between negative voting and each of these components in turn, and suggesting multiple research paths, this article aims to stimulate future studies on negative voting in multi-party parliamentary systems to motivate a better understanding of the implications of negativity in voting behavior in contemporary democracies. SAGE Publications 2021-04-09 2022-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8998150/ /pubmed/35422675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14789299211000187 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | State of the Art - Review Article Garzia, Diego Ferreira da Silva, Frederico Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies |
title | Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies |
title_full | Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies |
title_fullStr | Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies |
title_full_unstemmed | Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies |
title_short | Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies |
title_sort | negativity and political behavior: a theoretical framework for the analysis of negative voting in contemporary democracies |
topic | State of the Art - Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35422675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14789299211000187 |
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