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Electoral behaviour of voters is governed more by the social and economic factors than the political factors. Explain.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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The statement restates the Columbia school. In The People's Choice (1944), Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet found that "a person thinks, politically, as he is socially". The rival Michigan model stresses party identification, leaders and issues, and Anthony Downs the calculating voter. In India, social and economic factors set the durable frame of…

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  • Social factors: the durable frame
  • Economic factors: the vote as a material decision
  • Political factors: the swing
  • How the two interact
  • Limits of the statement
  • Conclusion
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