From Geopolitics to Cultural Affinity : The Change in Voting Behavior in Eurovision Song Contest
Using Eurovision Song Contest data from the years 1957 to 2009, we analyze voting biases of the participating countries in an attempt to answer the question: “Is it about music or politics?” More specifically with this study we show that determine states’ affinity toward one another and whether and how that differs when affinity is expressed through public opinion rather than through elites. The results of our time series analysis are in line with the suspicion that politics is an important part of the contest outcomes. In particular, for the period of jury vote, geopolitical considerations influence how one country votes for the other. Furthermore, we show that the more similar two states’ regime type, the more likely they are to be positively biased in their voting for one another in the Eurovision song contest. On the other hand, for the second period (i.e. public vote), we find that the cultural similarity of the voting county with the country they are voting for has a much stronger and nuanced impact on the bias in their vote
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2009
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Authors: | Ural, Basak Y. ; Bondanella, Stacy M. |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Geopolitik | Geopolitics | Wahlverhalten | Voting behaviour | Musik | Music | Europa | Europe | Abstimmung | Voting |
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