Habit Formation and Political Behaviour: Evidence of Consuetude in Voter Turnout

By Donald P. Green, Ron Shachar. British Journal of Political Science, 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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The Formation of Voting Habits (2012, methodology): “Also referred to as “consuetude” (Green & Shachar, 2000), “persistence” (Denny & Doyle, 2009; Meredith, 2009), “inertia” (Plutzer, 2002), or else, “state dependence” (Achen, 2006), this pattern is better known as “habit” (Aldrich et al., 2011; Cutts et al., 2009; Franklin, 2004; Gerber et al.,…”
Beyond Total Effects: Exploring the Interplay of Personality and Attitudes in Affecting Turnout in the 2009 German Federal Election (2013, background): “At the same time, to some extent turnout is habitual (Green & Shachar 2000; Plutzer 2002; Fowler 2006a) and openness might be thought of as somewhat at odds with habitual behavior.”
Is Voting Habit Forming? New Evidence from Experiments and Regression Discontinuities (2016, methodology): “Evidence of persistent voting shocks comes also from the instrumental variables analysis presented by Green and Shachar (2000), who use the perceived closeness of the election and ideological distance between the candidates to identify the effects of past turnout on subsequent turnout in the…”
Two Genes Predict Voter Turnout (2008, unknown): “Second, turnout behavior has been shown to be habitual—the majority of people either always vote or always abstain (Fowler 2006b; Gerber, Green, and Shachar 2003; Green and Shachar 2000; Miller and Shanks 1996; Plutzer 2002; Verba and Nie 1972).”
Turnout as a Habit (2011, background): “ Green and Shachar (2000) felt sufficiently concerned about this point that they called the pattern ‘‘consuetude,’’ a synonym for habit.”
Voting May Be Habit-Forming: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2003, background): “Concerned that voter turnout in one election may predict turnout in the next simply because factors absent from our model affect turnout in both elections, Green and Shachar (2000) propose an instrumental variables estimator to correct for persistent unmeasured causes of voting.”
Habitual Voting and Behavioral Turnout (2006, methodology): “This result is at odds with a substantial literature that indicates most people are habitual voters—they either always vote or always abstain (Gerber, Green, and Shachar 2003; Green and Shachar 2000; Miller and Shanks 1996; Plutzer 2002; Verba and Nie 1972).”
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections (2016, background): “Green and Shachar (2000) estimate models where past turnout affects current turnout, including a specification where past turnout is predicted using lagged demographic controls and opinions.”
The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention. (2014, background): “Longitudinal research is also important because the effect of an intervention may take time to occur (Pennebaker & Chung 2011, Schulz & Hanusa 1978) or persist longer than expected (Green & Shachar 2000).”