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Political Knowledge, Political Evaluation, and Voting Choice: A Study of Legislative Election of 2001

Hung-Der Fu
2005 / 05
Volume 12, No.1

pp.39-68
10.6612/tjes.2005.12.01.39-68
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Abstract

That political knowledge may have impacts on political evaluation and political evaluation may affect voting choice have been speculated. Using post-election survey data of the 2001 legislative election, this research intends to explore the explanatory factors that influence political knowledge, to identify the relationship between political knowledge and political evaluation, and to link political evaluation and voting choice. The results show that political knowledge has significant impacts on political evaluation, and political evaluation influences the legislative vote choice. Political evaluation, both the evaluation of economic performance and the evaluation of major parties, influenced by political knowledge independently form socio-demographical factors. After analyzing the full model, we confirmed that political evaluation has impacts on voting choice.

Keywords

political knowledge

political evaluation

voting choice