Substituting the End for the Whole: Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election-Year Economy
In: APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: American journal of political science, Band 55, Heft 3, S. 574-589
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 55, Heft 3, S. 574-590
ISSN: 0092-5853
In: APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 78, Heft 2, S. 369-391
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: Political behavior, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 357-373
ISSN: 1573-6687
One of the most consistently documented relationships in the field of political behavior is the close association between educational attainment and political participation. Although most research assumes that this association arises because education causes participation, it could also arise because education proxies for the factors that lead to political engagement: the kinds of people who participate in politics may be the kinds of people who tend to stay in school. To test for a causal effect of education, we exploit the rise in education levels among males induced by the Vietnam draft. We find little reliable evidence that education induced by the draft significantly increases participation rates. Adapted from the source document.
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 347-362
ISSN: 0162-895X
In: Political behavior, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 357-374
ISSN: 0190-9320
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 347-361
ISSN: 1467-9221
In: Political behavior, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 357-373
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: American journal of political science, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 394-410
ISSN: 1540-5907
Using panel data and matching techniques, we exploit a rare change in communication flows—the endorsement switch to the Labour Party by several prominent British newspapers before the 1997 United Kingdom general election—to study the persuasive power of the news media. These unusual endorsement switches provide an opportunity to test for news media persuasion while avoiding methodological pitfalls that have plagued previous studies. By comparing readers of newspapers that switched endorsements to similar individuals who did not read these newspapers, we estimate that these papers persuaded a considerable share of their readers to vote for Labour. Depending on the statistical approach, the point estimates vary from about 10% to as high as 25% of readers. These findings provide rare evidence that the news media exert a powerful influence on mass political behavior.
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 275-296
ISSN: 1467-9221
Much recent political psychology scholarship has examined the role of anxiety in vote choice. This work generally argues that anxiety affects vote choice indirectly by causing citizens to more thoroughly search for and process political information. This indirect effect of anxiety leads citizens to rely less on heuristics, such as party, and more on substantive information, such as policy positions. The most prominent example of this scholarship is the Affective Intelligence (AI) theory of emotions. In this paper, we use cross‐sectional and panel survey data to test AI against two simpler alternatives: (1) that emotions directly influence candidate evaluations and (2) that candidate evaluations directly influence emotions. We first show that these simpler alternatives can produce the complex, cross‐sectional interactions that provide the principal support for AI. Then, using panel data to better assess causal direction, we find little support for AI, some evidence that emotions directly influence candidate evaluations, and strong evidence that candidate evaluations directly influence emotions. Scholars, we conclude, should be hesitant to abandon these simpler explanations in favor of AI.
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 81, Heft 3, S. 1096-1100
ISSN: 1468-2508