Persuasive Peers (eBook)

Social Communication and Voting in Latin America

Barry Ames, Andy Baker, Lucio Renno (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
394 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20579-3 (ISBN)

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How voting behavior in Latin America is influenced by social networks and everyday communication among peersIn Latin America's new democracies, political parties and mass partisanship are not deeply entrenched, leaving many votes up for grabs during election campaigns. In a typical presidential election season, between one-quarter and one-half of all voters-figures unheard of in older democracies-change their voting intentions across party lines in the months before election day. Advancing a new theory of Latin American voting behavior, Persuasive Peers argues that political discussions within informal social networks among family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and acquaintances explain this volatility and exert a major influence on final voting choices.Relying on unique survey and interview data from Latin America, the authors show that weakly committed voters defer to their politically knowledgeable peers, creating vast amounts of preference change as political campaigns unfold. Peer influences also matter for unwavering voters, who tend to have social contacts that reinforce their voting intentions. Social influence increases political conformity among voters within neighborhoods, states, and even entire regions, and the authors illustrate how party machines use the social topography of electorates to buy off well-connected voters who can magnify the impact of the payoff.Persuasive Peers demonstrates how everyday communication shapes political outcomes in Latin America's less-institutionalized democracies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: 55 b/w illus. 40 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: abstention • Accountability • activism • americans • Argentina • ballot • Brazil • brazilians • Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • campaigns • Centre-right politics • Citizenship • Clientelism • Club good • coefficient • Communication • comparative politics • Competition • Confidence interval • confounding • connected voters • Conversation • Cross-Sectional Data • Deliberation • Democracy • Democratization • Dilma Rousseff • Distributive Politics • Dummy variable (statistics) • Effective number of parties • effect size • Election • election outcomes • Elections • Elite • Elizabeth Zechmeister • Ernesto Calvo • estimation • Exclusion • family income • Front-runner • Geraldo Alckmin • Ideology • income • incumbent • juiz de fora • Latin America • Latin Americans • left-wing politics • Level of Analysis • Likelihood Function • Logistic Regression • Logit • Marcelo Nazareno • Maria Victoria Murillo • Marina Silva • mass politics • Matthew Singer • Measurement • mexicans • Mexico • Monograph • month • Multinomial Logistic Regression • Multi-Party System • Nationalization • National Science Foundation • neighborhoods • newspaper • Non-Policy Politics • opinion leaders • Opinion Poll • Panel Data • Participatory Budgeting • party lines • party machines • Party System • percentage • Percentage point • Political Campaign • political communication • political discussions • Political Geography • political machine • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Polls • Pork barrel • Privatization • Probability • Public Opinion • Quantity • Rates (tax) • Respondent • running mate • Ryan Carlin • Sampling (Statistics) • Simeon Nichter • Social determinism • Social Environment • Social Exclusion • Social Influence • socially informed preferences • Social Networks • Social Psychology • social relation • Social Science Research Council • Society • Socioeconomic Status • spouse • standard deviation • statistical significance • Subset • Subsidy • Supporter • Surveys • Susan Stokes • Thad Dunning • The Latin American Voter • two-party system • Upper Class • Valeria Brusco • Vicente Fox • Vote Buying • vote intention • voter decisions • voters • voter volatility • Votes for Survival • Voting • Voting Behavior • Wealth • Whatsapp • World Values Survey
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20579-5 / 0691205795
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20579-3 / 9780691205793