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This paper measures the relative importance of party platforms versus expected policy outcomes in the voting decisions of individuals in a proportional representation (PR) system. It uses survey pre-electoral data from the 2006 Israeli elections. This survey is critical as it provides a set of questions on perceived likelihood and support for different potential coalitions that is unique in its richness and scope I find that the proportion of policy voters is slightly below 10\%. This is smaller than the proportion found in previous studies. The key to explaining this difference is the fact that this paper uses individual subjective perceptions about party platforms and likelihood of the different coalitions. Critically, it is shown that the inclusion of such subjective perceptions in the model improves the fit. Finally, there seems to be no correlation between policy voting and sociodemographics. |
