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dc.contributor.authorGARZIA, Diego
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-13T16:29:32Z
dc.date.available2015-01-13T16:29:32Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationContemporary Italian Politics, 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 115-130en
dc.identifier.issn2324-8823
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/34154
dc.description.abstractIn recent decades, citizens have grown increasingly distrustful of politics and its actors. Against this background, the aim of this paper is to shed light on the role of citizens themselves in the process by focusing on the determinants of their voting choices. As a matter of fact, a substantial proportion of voters in democratic elections actually cast a ‘dishonest vote’ – that is, a vote cast in favour of a candidate who is perceived as dishonest by the voter herself. Based on the available literature on political psychology and electoral behaviour, a number of competing hypotheses are advanced. These are tested using national election study data from the Second Italian Republic (2001–08). The statistical analyses presented show that the key determinant of the dishonest vote in Italian elections lies in a perception of every candidate being dishonest and, more generally, in a belief that politicians are ‘all the same’. The probability of casting a dishonest vote is higher among voters characterised by a lack of interest in politics and a comparatively lower degree of ‘civicness’. The results are then discussed along with their major implications for our understanding of democratic elections in times of growing political distrust.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofContemporary Italian Politicsen
dc.titleThe dishonest vote in Italian parliamentary electionsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23248823.2014.923156
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.identifier.startpage115en
dc.identifier.endpage130en
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