Political Attitudes of First-Time Voters 2002

Due to the fact that the existing discussions referring to the planned decrease of voting age from 18 to 16 this topic should catch some attention.->In this empirical study on the occasion of the parliamentary election in Austria 2006 the attention was drawn to the young voters who have an higher education, a higher interest in politics and in correlation to that a more intense political media consumption.->The study was conducted on the one hand with the browser game www.powerofpolitics.com and on the other hand with the internet presence of the daily newspaper Der Standard.The major issue was the Ann-Arbor-Model developed by Campbell et. al. on the University of Michigan in the 1950s. As a result of that model voting behaviour concurs with political-institutional, social-economical and psychological factors. The natural centre always builds a more or less strong party identification, which colours virtually every other possible factor. Further more the study was searching for the real potential of young voters when it comes to relate different party statements to the suitable party. A glance is taken to the childhood and the possible impact of political homogenous parents. The study should offer a comprehensive view of young voters, who are always being reckoned as political uninterested and querulous.鉴于当前学界与社会围绕将投票年龄从18岁下调至16岁的相关讨论，该议题理应受到更多关注。 本实证研究以2006年奥地利议会选举为研究场景，聚焦于受高等教育、对政治抱有更高兴趣且因此更频繁接触政治类媒体的青年选民群体。 本研究的数据采集主要通过两个渠道：一是网页游戏《Power of Politics》（www.powerofpolitics.com），二是奥地利《标准报》（Der Standard）的网络平台。 本研究的核心理论框架为坎贝尔（Campbell）等人于20世纪50年代在密歇根大学提出的安阿伯模型（Ann-Arbor-Model）。该模型指出，选民投票行为受到政治制度、社会经济与心理三大类因素的共同影响；其中，基于自然形成的党派认同（或多或少具备一定强度）几乎会对所有其他潜在影响因素产生塑造作用。 此外，本研究还探究了青年选民的真实投票潜力——即他们能否将不同政党的政见主张与对应政党进行精准匹配；同时本研究也关注了童年成长环境，以及政治立场同质的父母对青年选民可能产生的影响。 本研究旨在全面展现长期被贴上「对政治漠不关心、易怒挑剔」标签的青年选民群体的真实面貌。