A few weeks before 2006 general elections in Italy a high proportion of voters declared that they were still undecided about their vote. Based on panel and rolling cross section data collected within the 2006 ITANES program, the present paper analyses some feature of the decision process of these undecided voters. The comparison between this group and the group of decided voters highlighted relevant differences between the groups as regards the role played by various antecedents of vote: party and coalition identification, ideological orientation, values, leader perception, attitudes towards political issues. The relations between political interest, competence and the degree of voters’ uncertainty were also investigated.
Barisione, M., Catellani, P., De Sio, L., La scelta degli indecisi, in Bellucci, P., Segatti, P. (ed.), Votare in Italia: 1968-2008. Dall'appartenenza alla scelta, Il Mulino, Bologna 2010: 359- 389 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/22081]
La scelta degli indecisi
Catellani, Patrizia;
2010
Abstract
A few weeks before 2006 general elections in Italy a high proportion of voters declared that they were still undecided about their vote. Based on panel and rolling cross section data collected within the 2006 ITANES program, the present paper analyses some feature of the decision process of these undecided voters. The comparison between this group and the group of decided voters highlighted relevant differences between the groups as regards the role played by various antecedents of vote: party and coalition identification, ideological orientation, values, leader perception, attitudes towards political issues. The relations between political interest, competence and the degree of voters’ uncertainty were also investigated.
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