Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: van Herk, H.
Author-Name-Last: van Herk
Author-Name-First: Hester
Author-Name: Schoonees, P.C.
Author-Name-Last: Schoonees
Author-Name-First: Pieter
Author-Name: Groenen, P.J.F.
Author-Name-Last: Groenen
Author-Name-First: Patrick
Author-Person: pgr229
Author-Name: van Rosmalen, J.M.
Author-Name-Last: van Rosmalen
Author-Name-First: Joost
Title: Competing for the Same Value Segments: Explaining the Volatile Dutch Political Landscape
Abstract: Abstract
 Human values drive dierent kinds of abstract behaviour, while established value scales are
 pervasive in survey research. We focus on analyzing the relationship between human values
 and voting in elections, introducing a new methodology to analyze how value profiles relate
 to political support over time. To illustrate our procedure, we investigate the Dutch multi-party
 political system. Values measured using rating scales over five waves of the European Social
 Survey, spanning 2002 until 2010, are analysed. Whilst previous research have focused on
 values separately, we (1) relate all political parties participating in the election to human values
 using a segmentation approach in which value profiles are used instead of individual values; (2)
 compare voting over time; (3) include non-voters; and (4) adjust for individual dierences in
 response style. The adjustment for response styles allow us to uncover valid insights into the
 relationship between values and voting. We find evidence that specific value profiles are related
 to voting for certain political parties and that non-voters can also be distinguished by unique
 value profiles.
Length: 45
Creation-Date: 2015-09-16
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/78753/ERS-2015-012-MKT.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2015-012-STR
Keywords: human values, response styles, politics, segmentation, biplots
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:78753