‘Sacrifical lambs’ or candidate mimicking? Gender-based nomination strategies in elections
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by Ferran Martínez i Coma, Ignacio Lago
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. This paper explores an alternative mechanism for understanding the drivers of the nomination of women for elective office in single-member electoral systems. Previous research has generally examined two sources of gender-based politics: party ideology, with leftist parties being more female-friendly than rightist parties, and the strategic nomination of candidates depending on whether the party is expected to win or lose in the district, with women more likely to be used as ‘sacrificial lambs’ in hopeless contests. We argue that the nomination of male and female ..read more
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Partisan bias in politicians’ perception of scandals
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by Nanna Lauritz Schönhage, Benny Geys
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. Do politicians perceive scandals differently when they implicate members of their own party rather than another party? We address this question using a between-subject survey experiment, whereby we randomly assign UK local councillors (N = 2133) to vignettes describing a major national-level scandal in their own party versus another party. Our results show that local politicians perceive a significantly larger impact of this national scandal on the national party image when it concerns their own party (relative to another party). When evaluating the same scandal ..read more
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Protest at the ballot box: From blank vote to populism
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by Hadas Aron, Chiara Superti
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. Populist parties foment discontent with the establishment. Previous studies explored whether sentiments of discontent and protest can predict populist voting. In this paper, we argue that past electoral protest in a community, rather than merely a sense of discontent, is a good predictor of new populist lists and their electoral support. We explore this connection using blank voting, a measure that allows a systematic and unbiased evaluation of protest at the municipal level. We first test our theory on the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S). Controlling for econo ..read more
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May’s law may prevail: Evidence from Sweden
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by Oskar Hultin Bäckersten
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. Are party members more radical than voters and party elites? This is the expectation according to May’s Law, which has faced significant challenges from recent scholarship. Utilizing several survey sources covering four levels of all Swedish parliamentary parties between 1985 and 2018, this paper shows that the Swedish case follows May’s propositions with some qualifications. The parties organized along the left-right dimension follow the pattern of the mid-level being more radical in this respect, while on a secondary GAL-TAN dimension the parties that organize ..read more
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How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge. A comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’ and the ‘European integration’ dimensions
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by Alejandro Ecker, Marcelo Jenny, Wolfgang C Müller, Katrin Praprotnik
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. This paper examines the validity of three approaches to estimate party positions on the general left–right and EU dimensions. We newly introduce party elite data from the comprehensive IntUne survey and cross-validate it with existing expert survey and manifesto data. The general left–right estimates generated by elites and experts show a higher congruence than those derived from party manifestos; neither measure clearly materializes as more valid regarding EU positions. We identify which factors explain diverging estimates. For instance, disagreement among expe ..read more
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Why democrats abandon democracy: Evidence from four survey experiments
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by Diego Fossati, Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Eve Warburton
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. In several world regions, democracy is in retreat. This retreat is taking place amid growing polarization in many countries, and analysts are increasingly concerned with the role that deepening political divisions play in processes of democratic decline. This article investigates the relationship between partisan polarization and deteriorating public support for democratic institutions. It leverages the case of Indonesia, a major third-wave democracy now in the midst of a democratic regression. Indonesia’s political landscape has become more ideologically polari ..read more
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The life of the parties: Party activists and the 2016 presidential election
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by Rosalyn Cooperman, Gregory Shufeldt, Kimberly Conger
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump secured their respective party’s 2016 nominations only after raucous, spirited debates among delegates at the start of each party convention. Groups and their preferred candidates behaved consistently with the policy demanders view of parties, which identifies parties as comprised of coalitions of groups with strong policy preferences that negotiate with one another for influence in the party decision-making and policy process. Using the 2016 Convention Delegate Study, the longest standing survey of Democratic and Republican Part ..read more
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Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook
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by Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, Christina Gahn, Anita Bodlos, Martin Haselmayer
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. Representative democracy presents politicians with an information problem: How to find out what voters want? While party elites used to rely on their membership or mass surveys, social media enables them to learn about voters’ issue priorities in real time and adapt their campaign messages accordingly. Yet, we know next to nothing about how campaigns make use of these new possibilities. To narrow this gap, we use a unique data set covering every Facebook post by party leaders and party organizations in the run-up to the 2017 Austrian parliamentary election. We t ..read more
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Ballot spoilage as a response to limitations on choice and influence
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by Patrick Cunha Silva, Brian F Crisp
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. Electoral systems vary in terms of the choice and influence they offer voters. Beyond selecting between parties, preferential systems allow for choices within parties. More proportional systems make it likely that influence over who determines the assembly’s majority will be distributed across relatively more voters. In response to systems that limit choice and influence, we hypothesize that voters will cast more blank, null, or spoiled ballots on purpose. We use a regression discontinuity opportunity in French municipal elections to test this hypothesis. An exo ..read more
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Do nonpartisan ballots racialize candidate evaluations? Evidence from “Who Said What?” experiments
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by Craig M Burnett, Vladimir Kogan
3y ago
Party Politics, Ahead of Print. At last count, U.S. voters were responsible for directly electing more than 510,000 public officials. Few of these contests feature lively campaigns or attract substantial media attention, often leaving the average voter to make decisions with limited information. We argue that the cognitive strategies voters use to make decisions in these low-information contests depend in part on the informational cues printed on their ballot—in particular, the presence or absence of partisan labels. Using two “Who Said What?” experiments, we show that voters engage in social ..read more
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