title: The link between subjective well-being and electoral participation: Сrossnational perspective
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metadata.value: Moreva, Iuliia E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-06-06T19:14:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-06-06T19:14:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Moreva Iu. E. The link between subjective well-being and electoral participation: Сrossnational perspective. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2023, vol. 16, issue 4, pp. 428– 438. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.405 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45546
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the relationship between subjective well-being and elections turnout. The
  purpose of the article is to determine how subjective well-being affects turnout. To achieve the
  purpose, the link between subjective well-being and electoral participation should be studied
  along with the influence that political regime has on this link. The majority of previous
  research papers indicate that there is a positive relationship between the studied variables.
  Most of these studies were based on data from specific democratic countries. Little attention
  has been paid to cross-national comparison and to countries with less developed democratic
  institutions. According to the theory of retrospective voting, voters tend to use elections to
  reward or punish the incumbent. Thus, it can be hypothesized that subjective well-being increases
  the likelihood to participate in elections, and that the democratic context strengthens
  the link between subjective well-being and voters turnout. The joined dataset of the European
  Social Survey and World Values Survey is used for the empirical analysis. Multilevel binary
  logistic regression is used as the main method of analysis. The results of the study show a
  statistically significant relationship between the high level of subjective well-being and voter
  turnout. People with higher levels of subjective well-being are more likely to vote in elections.
  In democratic countries, this relationship is stronger. These findings support the conclusions
  of previous research and confirm a modified version of the retrospective voting theory, which
  uses subjective well-being as a predictor of electoral behavior.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was written within the framework of the Fundamental Research Program of the National
  Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 16; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subjective well-being
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: happiness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political participation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: voting
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: elections
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: voter turnout
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The link between subjective well-being and electoral participation: Сrossnational perspective
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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