73
JOURNAL OF YOUTH RESEARCHES
A Research About the Youngs’ Voting Behavior in Local Elections: The Case of 2009, Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Election
•
To have the religious, ethical etc. influences as the politics of the governments,
•
Alternative political possibilities,
•
General depression/stress that affects the public.
b) Information possibilities are:
•
The results of government policy can be experienced,
•
To have the experience of a vocational education suitable for having the ability of
intuition,
•
Communication and relationship processes,
•
Sufficiency of free time.
c) Pressure groups that force voting are:
•
Deprivation and alienation from privilege,
•
The power of political organizations based on class principles,
•
Common social relations,
•
Group dynamics against voting.
d) Cross pressures are:
•
Conflicting interests,
•
Conflicting information,
•
Conflicting group pressure.
These classifications enforce handling various approaches that sociological, psychologi-
cal, identification with the party, rational choice, subject voting and ideological perspec-
tives together (Damlapınar and Balcı, 2014:103; Önder, 2011b:155-156). Çavuşoğlu and
Pekkaya (2016:21) add public choice perspective of economics developed the leadership
of Antony Downs’ “An Economic Theory of Democracy” to these classifications.
Sociological Approach
The sociological approach does not focus on individual election, but on groups and po-
litical parties in which it takes place. The main question here is “why do voters vote?”.
The sociological approach does not accept individual preferences as an important factor
in voting decision. Sociological approach here focuses on focus groups of sociological
factors such as religion, socio-economic structure, geographical structure, social groups
that an electorate is a member (Damlapınar and Balcı, 2014:104-105). In sociological
approach, social divisions play an important role in determining political preferences.
Common historical experiences of social groups and societies as well as groups of close
friends are influential here. The most important characteristics of groups are that they
