Emotions and voting decisions: Components of the vote in the 2016 general elections in Spain

Abstract

The study of emotions has resurged in the last 20 years from different discipline spaces and with different theoretical approaches and methodological gears, although its incorporation in the field of political science has not been simple. Under for further reading of the relationship that emotions and reason keep between them, we propose in this work to perform an analysis of the role that the emotions can have in the voting decision. To this end, the convulsed and confusing political context that took place in the General Elections of 2016 in Spain, after an unsuccessful attempt of government formation, it is the ideal scenario in which to analyse and to study the impact that in the voting decision played it, along with other traditional components, the emotional element.