{"id":1383,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/electoral-behaviour-of-voters-is-governed-more-by-the-social-and-upsc-psir-2022-2508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:25","slug":"electoral-behaviour-of-voters-is-governed-more-by-the-social-and-upsc-psir-2022-2508","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/electoral-behaviour-of-voters-is-governed-more-by-the-social-and-upsc-psir-2022-2508\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral behaviour of voters is governed more by the social and economic factors than the political factors. Explain."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">*\u00ae!_:~\u00abdefine electoral behaviour (Plano &amp; Riggs) \u2192 social + economic form the base, political works upon it R2 claim holds substantially \u2192 identity + material conditions anchor the vote<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">social factors deepest (caste \/ religion \/ region \u2192 Morris Jones: caste-politics reciprocity \u2192 Kothari&#039;s politicization of caste) \u2192 economic factors rising (informed, performance-conscious voter \u2192 jobs \/ inflation \/ welfare \u2192 Kohli, Gupta &amp; Panagariya \u2192 Vaishnav: economics up, identity entrenched) \u2192 political factors not passive (leadership \/ campaign \u2192 2019 social consolidation over caste arithmetic)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Banerjee: caste, religion, ethnicity still matter strongly \u2192 economics has not displaced identity<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\u00ae! no single set governs \u2192 interaction decides R2 voter weighs identity + welfare + leadership + performance together \u2192 claim partly true; interaction the truer reading<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[47],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[66],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1383","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-47","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-party-system","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1383\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}