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Money and Meaning in Elections: Towards a theory of the vote
Modern Asian Studies ( IF 1.075 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-08 , DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x17000798
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This article offers a comprehensive set of explanations for why people vote. Based on evidence from Indian elections, where voter turnouts remain consistently high—and rising—despite voting not being compulsory, the article shows that two broad sets of reasons exist. First, a set of transactional factors, labelled ‘money’ here, encompass within it the instrumental and coercive reasons that propel people to vote. Secondly, evidence shows that people also attribute ‘meaning’ to the act of voting itself so they vote for the sake of performing the act itself. Drawing from the wider literature and the author's own ethnographic work, including comparative ethnographic research conducted by a team across India, this article brings together these diverse set of reasons to propose a holistic explanation for why people vote.

中文翻译:

选举中的金钱和意义:走向投票理论

本文为人们投票的原因提供了一套全面的解释。根据印度选举的证据,尽管投票不是强制性的,但选民投票率一直很高——而且还在上升——这篇文章表明存在两大类原因。首先,一组交易因素,在此标为“金钱”,其中包含促使人们投票的工具性和强制性原因。其次,有证据表明,人们也将“意义”归因于投票行为本身,因此他们投票是为了执行该行为本身。本文借鉴更广泛的文献和作者自己的民族志工作,包括印度一个团队进行的比较民族志研究,汇集了这些不同的原因,对人们投票的原因提出了一个整体的解释。
更新日期:2019-07-08
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