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The Factors Affecting Voter Behaviour in Local Elections Kocaeli Sample

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dc.contributor.author Zeynep, Karahan Uslu
dc.contributor.author Bozkurt, Veysel
dc.contributor.author Tüfekçioğlu, Hayati
dc.date.accessioned 2023-12-04T12:11:47Z
dc.date.available 2023-12-04T12:11:47Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.citation Zeynep, Karahan Uslu; Bozkurt, Veysel; Tüfekçioğlu, Hayati (2017). "The Factors Affecting Voter Behaviour in Local Elections Kocaeli Sample", Turkish Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 1-18. tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 1308-2140
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/6733
dc.description.abstract The aim of this study is to analyse, by taking into consideration the social values and needs, the factors affecting the voters' voting behaviours in the local elections. In the process of evaluating the voters' choices related to the candidate's positive and negative aspects, the impacts of the media messages, the election campaign, the candidate's ethnic origin, and the perceptions developed about the candidate's political party have been analysed; the influences of age, gender, education level, political identity, and socio-demographic effects have also been questioned. Using the sample from Kocaeli comprising 8594 individuals (2009 ANAR survey data collection), the singular characteristics of the candidate and the sentiments developed about the candidate's political party have been detected to have more dominant effects in the voters' choices. Meanwhile, the level of education has been discovered to be strengthening the voters' rational choices, leading them to make more insightful examinations of the candidate. Turkish voters are generally of conservative character, and in their political party preferences, a vast majority of voters’ side with the rightist/conservative parties. The party which consolidates conservative/islamist/nationalist center-right naturally gets ahead and takes the lead. Atatürkism keeps its position notably, yet liberalism, Kemalism, and ethnic nationalism find less support among the voters. The data shows that the candidate's reliability/honesty (85 %), his/her having close contact with the public (81 %), his/her experience (80 %), his/her projects and promises (80 %), his/her party (80 %), the campaign (53 %), media (40 %), origin (24 %), and the desire to punish the disliked (15%) are effective on the voters' preferences. tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.relation.isversionof 10.7827/TurkishStudies.11600 tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess tr_TR
dc.title The Factors Affecting Voter Behaviour in Local Elections Kocaeli Sample tr_TR
dc.type article tr_TR
dc.relation.journal Turkish Studies tr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID 203902 tr_TR
dc.identifier.volume 12 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 3 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 1 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 18 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Halkla İlişkiler ve Reklamcılık Bölümü tr_TR


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