Competing for the same value segments? Insight into the volatile Dutch political landscape.

ABSTRACT: Values are central to public debates today. Human values convey broad goals that serve as guiding principles in a person's life and value priorities differ across people in society. Groups in society holding opposing values (e.g., universalism versus security) will make different choices when voting in an election. Whereas over time, values are relatively stable, the number and type of political parties as well as the political values they communicate and disseminate have been changing. Groups of people holding the same human values may therefore vote for another (new) party in a later election. 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. We investigat

SUBMITTER: van Herk H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764305 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature