TITLE:
Components of the Vote for Non-Independence Parties: Regional Elections in Catalonia 2017
AUTHORS:
Nieves Lagares, Elba Maneiro, Alfonso A. López
KEYWORDS:
Catalan Elections, Emotions, Vote, Non-Independence Parties, Procés
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.10 No.3,
June
5,
2020
ABSTRACT: The lengthy political crisis in Catalonia highlights the incapacity of
the Spanish Government and the Generalitat of Catalonia to find a
political solution to this conflict. Facing a situation of this exceptionality
and so prolonged in time, an innumerable number of articles and research papers
have been published from Political Science. However, very few authors have
decided to tackle the influence of emotions on the voting decisions of the
Catalans; and even fewer, through a quantitative analysis. In this artcile, we decided to analyse the elements that compose the vote for the main non-independence political parties (PSC and C’s) in the 2017 Catalan
elections, including components of an emotional nature. To this end, we will
use the survey carried out by the Equipo de Investigaciones Políticas to
develop two structural equation models (SEM), one for each of these parties, in
which we will incorporate emotions along with other “classic” voting variables.