Las elecciones generales de 2000. Voto ideológico / voto racional

Abstract

After analyzing the essential character of the 2000 general elections in Spain and its implications in terms of a change in the electoral profile of the People's Party, the article examines two aspects of the election. First, it scrutinizes the public opinión dynamics that led to the PP's achievement of an absolute majority in the legislature, paying special attention to the social dialogue between unions and the government and its consequences on the respective perception of social and economic circumstances. Second, the article analyzes what, in the author's view, better defines the election: the contradiction between ideological factors and rational evaluation. This is not to say that ideology is not rational, but only to stress a specific way of reasoning that resolves the contradiction in favor of rational evaluation.