POLI 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anthony Downs
23 Jan 2018
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Taxes, free-trade agreements: voters will focus on easy issues, rather than hard issues, when making voting-choice, information shortcuts, retrospective model of voting. If party a is election in a promise they would implement a certain policy, if they are elected they are understood to be mandated to implement the policy: ex. Canada-us free-trade agreement: elections seen as authorizing a future direction. If opinion is equally divided, a party will lose as many votes from those who do not support their opinion, as those they gain from those who support their opinion, or they will be no net effect: ex. It is difficult to test these two models: there is a risk of perceptual biased, this artificially produces results that look like proximity voting, 2 possible perceptual biases, rationalization, ex. Id liberal party, you will think whatever positions libs take are closest to your own: neutralizing perceptual biases, gidengil et al.
