2014 TURKISH LOCAL VOTING ADVICE APPLICATION (VAA) COMPARıSONS WıTH THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTıON VAA Ali Çarkoğlu Kerem Yıldırım Andre Krouwel
SUMMARY 9 VAA’s in 8 metropolitan municipalities and one generic vaa for the rest of the country İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Diyarbakır, Antalya, Samsun, Kayseri and Erzurum 30 questions to determine political positions in two dimensional space 16 Local questions tailored for the specific issues in the locality 14 National questions measuring the position in national issues (corruption, privatization, Kurdish question etc…)
POSITIONS OF POLITICALLY RELEVANT PARTIES IN DIFFERENT CITIES: Istanbul Ankara
Izmir Diyarbakır
AntalyaErzurum
KayseriSamsun
Generic
Impact of the Economic Left-Right position and Conservative-Reformist position on the Propensity to Vote for the 4 Politically Relevant Parties: AKPCHPMHPBDP&HDP Economic Left-Right Position (X axis) 0.372**-0.546*0.413* Conservative-Reformist Position (Y axis) *** ***3.777*** Egocentric Retro Econ.Eval * Sociotropic Retro Econ.Eval ***-0.564***-0.120**0.168*** Sociotropic Prosp. Econ.Eval ***-0.148**-0.122** Female ***0.441** Age **-0.049*** Education *-0.353** Kurdish 0.421*-2.193***-1.270***3.271*** Constant 1.832***9.374***8.428***-1.994* R-squared N * p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001