Sosyo - ekonomik statü bazlı oy vermede bölgesel trendler

There have been fierce debates over the decline in class voting levels. While one group of scholars argues that class voting has been declining in the Western democracies, another, opposing group aims to show that class voting trends have been stable. There exist three shortcomings in the previous class voting literature. First, a majority of these studies focus on Western countries and neglect others. Second, comparative studies are relatively rare. Lastly, the role of country-specific effects has been ignored. The present study offers a cross-regional comparison of class voting trends, including non-Western countries, while also considering the effects of country-level control variables. After conducting analyses on survey-level data to construct the country-level dataset, I conduct time-series-cross-sectional analysis. The findings reveal that in Western democracies class voting levels were stable between 1990 and 2011, while in post-communist countries they increased over the same period. The study makes three main contributions to the literature. First, it demonstrates that a differentiation between regions, in which countries have similar historical, social and political characteristics, is necessary since different regions have different patterns of class voting. Second, country-level control variables suggest that different dynamics of class voting exist under different institutional contexts. Finally, the results demonstrate that assessing time trends in class voting without taking country-specific factors into account may be deceptive and therefore country-level control variables should be included. Keywords: Class Voting, Post-Communist Countries, Institutional Context, Time-SeriesCross-Sectional Analysis