There is a long tradition within qualitative research of theory being central and of critical importance. Qualitative … research theory often equates with the methodologies used but this is a complex relationship, plagued by lack of consensus … among scholars regarding how theory and methodology are related. This article furthers the debates on how theories are used …

discuss how we can capture the complexity of voting behaviour by applying graph theory in networks and we develop a simplified … theoretical model of voting choice adopting the basic heuristics of the behavioural decision theory. We feel that such a complex …