People within higher economic status are more likely to be politically active due to their work experience, social position, occupation, and education. All of these reasons are intertwined into the voter’s economic status. The voter’s political position within their community makes them more likely to be involved within politics. Work experience reflects a person's education; the better educated a person is the higher a person’s income is. In addition, a person's occupation establishes the voter within their economic category. A person social position is reflected by a person's income and position within their community.
A voter’s social economic status has higher expendable incomes that helps meet the immediate needs of the individual. The
“The initial expectation is that a substantial gap exists between the voting rates of the socially advantaged because the latter are less informed about politics, feel more alienated from the political system and are not the main target of mobilization efforts by political parties”
As society rapidly changes with an influx of new ideas and issues, studying the college educated and those who are not will help evaluate behaviors and attitudes towards the government, ultimately, clearing the way to adaption into a modern society that perhaps offer remedies of educational and voting discrepancies or even close the gaps between political ideology or identification. Hence, this paper proposes the research question: How does education level influence political party identification.
Between the years of 1945-1970 social class dominantly shaped the voting behaviour of individuals. Whilst there has been a decline in prominence of class voting: Labour remains the most popular working class party and Conservatives perform best among middle-class voters. Social classes are defined by economic and social
As we live in a country that is home to many people of different backgrounds, age groups, genders, races, and religions, the factors of why people vote and who is more likely to vote
In recent history, there has been a reported decrease in voter turnout for both minor and major elections such as mid-term and presidential elections. Some of the causes for this decrease are inequality, social capital and election day conditions; all of which minorities are subject to. Most of whom we consider to be regular voters,or those that are sure to vote, are wealthy, older, educated, white, and church attending people. They are usually more involved in
Typically, you will see education and income go hand in hand. The less education you have the more likely you will have a lower income therefor the higher poverty you will be. This would drive the turnout to vote. Economic issues will bring out the voters more than social issues will. Many times, it boils down to what is on the ballot and do they know enough about it to care.
Hypothesis 1: Voters with higher education (which generally results in higher household incomes) are more likely to vote.
A socioeconomic status is the level of education and income a person has. People with higher educations and incomes are more likely to vote than people with lower educations and incomes. When it comes to voting one's “education level is the single most important factor in predicting whether an individual will vote” (218). Other socioeconomic groups that influence whether or not a person will vote is their partisan tie. “Individuals with strong partisan ties to one of the major political parties are more likely to vote then nonpartisans or independents” (218). Nonpartisans and independents may not feel as if they owe as much to a certain party. Therefore, they don’t feel obligated to vote in an
Intro-The average American voter. Typically the claim or reason a person votes is because of agreement with a candidate or policy. General knowledge about the issues in this country and current running candidates is extremely abundant. As I mentioned voters will vote for a politician who they believe “knows” how to fix these issues. Yet in a recent Newsweek survey 1,000 random U.S. citizens were asked to take America’s ‘official’ citizenship test, 29 percent could not name the vice president. 73 percent could not identify why we fought the Cold War. 44 percent were unable to define what the Bill of Rights are, and 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar. If American people/voters cannot even identify
Two factors that influence voter turnout more so in the United States than in other countries are education and income. Those who are college-educated and receive higher incomes are much more likely to vote than those with less education and lower income. The gap is narrower in European countries because of the presence of social and labor parties not present in the United States where there is not a clear working class party. Lower income citizens are also more likely to suffer from the registration system and lack transportation to and from the polls (Patterson
The New York Times article “For Every 10 U.S. Adults, Six Vote and Four Don’t. What Separates Them?” written by Alicia Paralapiano and Adam Pearce states race, education, income, gender,
In the election process, every citizen must be guaranteed a right to vote, one vote per person, no matter what income status, background, or state you reside in. No limitations must be placed on any individuals in order to allow everyone an effective opportunity to vote. In order to assure that everyone has the freedom to oppose certain individuals, frequent, fair, and free elections must be held. The first indicator I will be analyzing is limitations placed on the ability of individuals to participate within the U.S elections. The U.S organization demo’s states that the voter turnout rate for those who earn an income of less than $10,000 a year is 42.3% compared to that of 78.1% for those whose income is over $150,000 a year (2008). Overall, voter turnouts in the U.S on average are exceptionally lower than those of other democracies. As Michael McGrath (2015) points out “during the 2010 elections…only 41% of the voting age population within the U.S turned out at the polls… [compared to] other countries [where] it is not unusual for turnouts to be as high as 80%” (p.38). Additionally, amongst the 41% is an inaccurate sample which embellishes the size of some groups and underrepresents others (McGrath, 2015).These large discrepancy are a result of
Voters play a large role in the election process, therefore their participation and knowledge can determine a lot. Many voters are participating less as the elections go on, due to not being fully informed or educated. “About one-half the eligible electorate does not participate in presidential elections, and turnout for local elections is much lower than that” (Hall, J. S. & Jones, P. M.). With turnouts as low as they are the younger generations are even more reluctant to register to vote let alone play a part in the actual elections. The lowest registration turnouts are beginning with the eighteen to twenty-four year old groups (Hall, J. S. & Jones, P. M.).
The author, V. O. Key, states the results of a survey that shows that voters tend to vote for people who vote for candidates that will help them financially. He also states that people tend to vote for a certain party’s candidate because of their ties to the party. Key then declares that one can predict a person’s vote based on their personality and attributes. Key also shows that although these behaviors show strangeness, the voters have great importance to politics. Key says that the voters’ behavior has importance as it helps candidates discover the nature of the voters’ interests to try gain an advantage. Finally, Key states that voters behave as well as possible, considering the possibilities of other
The research will examine voting rights in relation to voting right inequalities and the society’s effort to have an all minority groups included in the civic process. The research will look into several historical factors that contributed to voting rights inequalities and how the society has evolved to solve issues related to the right to vote.