Class Models of Electoral Behaviour

A UC de Modelos de Comportamento Eleitoral reconhece a premissa que as eleições ocupam um lugar central nos regimes democráticos, sendo o mecanismo pelo qual se processam as funções de representação e responsabilização. O comportamento dos cidadãos durante o processo eleitoral pode ser influenciado por inúmeros fatores entre eles a forma como os atores políticos comunicam, as estratégias de campanha ou a cobertura mediática do ato eleitoral, o empiricamente levou a conceptualização de diferentes modelos explicativos fundamentais para a compreensão destes processos

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Electoral Behaviour     a. Sociological Model     b. Socio-psychological Model     c. Economic Model     d. New Cleavages Model: New Left and New Right Contextual Effects on Voter Behaviour     a. The Second-Order Election Model (and related approaches)     b. Recent Trends in Voter Behaviour and Attitudes in Modern Democracies

The teaching and learning process is primarily based on theoretical-practical classes, combining lectures by the instructor with the discussion and presentation of students’ work from a critical and analytical perspective.

Dalton, R. J., e Klingemann, H.-D. (eds.) (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Franklin, M.  (1992). “The decline of cleavage politics?” In Franklin, M. N. et al (eds.), Electoral change - responses to evolving social and attitudinal structures in western countries, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 383-405. Franklin, M. (2002). “The dynamics of electoral participation?” In LeDuc, L. e N., R. G., e Norris, P.(orgs.), Comparing Democracies New Challenges in the Study of Elections and Voting, Londres, Sage, pp. 148-168 Franklin, M. et al (1992). “Introduction”. In Franklin, Mark N. et al (eds.), Electoral change - responses to evolving social and attitudinal structures in western countries, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-32.