Głosowanie jako nawyk w nowych demokracjach - przykład Polski

• Authors: Mikołaj Cześnik , Marta Żerkowska-Balas

Title variants

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HABITUAL VOTING IN NEW DEMOCRACIES: A CASE OF POLAND

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Wśród licznych teorii, mających wyjaśnić, dlaczego jedni ludzie głosują, a inni nie, jedna staje się coraz bardziej popularna. Jest to teoria mówiąca, że głosowanie jest nawykiem. Analizy empiryczne potwierdzające tę teorię dotyczą jednak wyłącznie zachodnich demokracji, można więc zadać pytanie: czy ta prawidłowość jest uniwersalna? W przypadku stabilnych demokracji głosowanie jest nawykiem wykształcanym stopniowo w procesie zaczynającym się w chwili, gdy obywatel może oddać głos po raz pierwszy. W nowych demokracjach sytuacja jest inna, jako że możemy wskazać moment początkowy (pierwsze demokratyczne wybory), który jest wspólny dla różnych wyborców i różnych kohort wiekowych. W tym artykule analizujemy głosowanie jako nawyk w nowych demokracjach, wykorzystując dane Polskiego Generalnego Studium Wyborczego. Stwierdzamy, że głosowanie w Polsce ma nawykowy aspekt: powtarzalność przyczynia się do powstania pewnego rodzaju nawyku, który ma nieredukowalny wpływ na uczestnictwo wyborcze. Stwierdzamy też, że nawyk głosowania wykształca się jednakowo we wszystkich kohortach wiekowych.

EN

Among the wide range of theories explaining why some people vote and others do not, one is recently gaining particular popularity. This is the theory of voting as a habit. The empirical evidence supporting this theory covers only Western democracies, so the following question might be asked: is this pattern universal? In case of old democracies, voting is a habit acquired gradually in a process which starts at the moment of the very first election in which one can cast the ballot. In new democracies the situation is different, as we can pinpoint the starting moment (first democratic election), which is the same for different voters and thus different age cohorts. In this paper we investigate voting as a habit in new democracies, using data from the Polish National Election Study. We find that voting in Poland has some habitual aspect; repeated voting brings about a (sort of) habit, which has an intrinsic, irreducible effect on voter turnout. We also find that habit of voting is formed likewise in all age cohorts.

Keywords

PL

nawyk; zachowania wyborcze; wybory

EN

ELECTION; ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR; HABIT

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 2(201)
• Pages: 109-122

Contributors

author

Mikołaj Cześnik

• Polska Akademia Nauk

author

Marta Żerkowska-Balas

• Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej

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