Moral Values and Voting

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Enke, Benjamin
• 署名单位: Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/708857
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 3679-3729
• 关键词: CONSERVATIVES; EVOLUTION; IDENTITY; liberals; sets

摘要

This paper studies the supply of and demand for moral values in recent US presidential elections. Using a combination of large-scale survey data and text analyses, I find support for the hypothesis that both voters and politicians exhibit heterogeneity in their emphasis on universalist relative to communal moral values and that politicians' vote shares partly reflect the extent to which their moral appeal matches the values of the electorate. Over the last decade, Americans' values have become increasingly communal-especially in rural areas-which generated increased moral polarization and is associated with changes in voting patterns across space.