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  • It has long been argued that underlying values should hold a central role in political analysis (Easton 1953). This would seem increasingly relevant in an era of de-alignment and catch-all parties in which political actors often make direct values orientated appeals to the electorate instead of relying on the social allegiances of voters (Norris and Inglehart 2004). The influence of values on individual vote choice preferences has often been subsumed within broader socio-structural or rational choice models of voting, such as party ID or spatial measures. With the expansion in appropriate data and measures available to empirical researchers, the last two decades have seen a substantial increase in the number of studies directly addressing the values-voting relationship (Schwartz 1992, Feldman 2003). This existingempirical literature has generally focused on analysing the role of values on voting in single electoral contexts. While this approach has generated many useful findings in establishing the role of values in differentiating political choice, it has not yet demonstrated the causal mechanisms which couldhighlight the wider significance of values to electoral choice research (Leimgruber 2011). In addition there is little work that considers the impact of political context on the values-voting relationship. This paper aims to go some way to addressing these gaps by taking a comparative, cross-national approach. Firstly, it aims to test the viability of political identity in mediating the influence of values on voter preferences by using left-right identity as mediator in a path analysis at the European wide level. Secondly it will measure the effects of contextual factors, such as party polarisation and the effective number of parties, onthe values-voting relationship by comparing values models of voting in 15 West European Democracies. It is argued firstly that mediation influence of left-right highlights the complexity and variation in the values-voting relationship. Secondly, values have a greater role in influencing voter choice in countries in which the party system is more polarised. The analysis presented in this paper utilises data from the European Values Survey (1990-2008) to develop nuanced latent measures of political values, with the aim of developing models that can highlight the causal mechanisms that render values relevant to vote choice decisions. Results from Structural Equation path models will be presented. (xsd:string)
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  • http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/161002/Loughran_EPOP_Edinburgh_Paper_20141.pdf. (EVS) (xsd:string)
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  • A values based electorate? How does electoral context influence the relationship between political values and voting in West European Democracies? (xsd:string)
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