The Electoral Impact of Local Campaigning in the 2014 Regional and Federal Elections

AbstractThis study deals with the question of economic voting in Canada, notably that the electoral impact of economic perceptions with regard to the performance of the federal government has not been homogeneous among the whole Canadian electorate during the period of Liberal dominance in Quebec. Contrary to our Findings on voters in other provinces, francophone Quebeckers did not vote according to their judgment of the government on economic matters, their fidelity to the Liberal party having inhibited them in this respect. These results suggest that the absence of economic voting in Quebec during the Liberal regime may clarify, at least in part, the puzzling conclusions of previous research, that show a fragile relationship between the economy and the electoral outcomes in Canada. These findings break new ground for a better understanding of the specific electoral rationality used by minorities in long-established democracies.

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The electoral impact of grassroots activity in the 2012 local elections in Flanders

Acta Politica ◽

10.1057/ap.2014.39 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 131-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Audrey André ◽

Sam Depauw

Keyword(s):

Local Elections ◽

Electoral Impact

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Reserved for Whom? The Electoral Impact of Gender Quotas in Taiwan

Pacific Affairs ◽

10.5509/2016892325 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 89 (2) ◽

pp. 325-343 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Chang-Ling Huang

Keyword(s):

Gender Quotas ◽

Electoral Impact

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The Legal Context of Turnout

Who Votes Now? ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691159348.003.0004 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Jan E. Leighley ◽

Jonathan Nagler

Keyword(s):

Voter Turnout ◽

State Level ◽

Electoral Rules ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Data Set ◽

Election Administration ◽

Legal Context ◽

Electoral Impact ◽

The Cost ◽

Cost Of Voting

This chapter considers the electoral impact the new, wider array of voter registration and election administration laws using a new data set collected on state electoral rules between 1972 and 2008. States vary tremendously as to how easy it is to register and to vote, and previous research suggests that these laws affect who votes because they change the cost of voting. However, most of these studies rely on cross-sectional data, and usually consider the influence of one reform at a time. The chapter provides aggregate (state-level) analyses of the effects of changes in these rules on voter turnout. These analyses help us address the question of whether overall voter turnout has increased as a result of these legal changes. It finds modest effects of election day registration, of absentee voting, and of moving the closing date for registration closer to the election on overall turnout. The effect of early voting is less clear.

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The Electoral Impact of the 2008 Economic Crisis in Europe

Economic Crisis in Europe ◽

10.1057/9781137005236_5 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 87-111

Author(s):

Lawrence LeDuc ◽

Jon H. Pammett

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Electoral Impact

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The Front National since the 1970s: Electoral Impact and Party System Change

France since the 1970s : History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty ◽

10.5040/9781474210676.ch-002 ◽

2014 ◽

Keyword(s):

Party System ◽

System Change ◽

Front National ◽

Electoral Impact

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Accepting or Resisting? Citizen Responses to Corruption Across Varying Levels of Competence and Corruption Prevalence

Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0032321719868210 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

pp. 653-670 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sofia B Vera

Keyword(s):

National Survey ◽

Causal Effect ◽

Political Corruption ◽

Public Works ◽

Electoral Accountability ◽

Electoral Support ◽

Information Credibility ◽

Electoral Impact ◽

Group Identities ◽

Vignette Experiment

The literature studying citizen responses to exposed political corruption is rapidly growing. While some studies explore how information credibility and group identities can reduce the electoral impact of the exposure of corruption, this article addresses different mechanisms for weak electoral accountability for corruption: candidate competence in public works provision and corruption prevalence. It uses a vignette experiment embedded in a national survey in Peru to isolate the causal effect of political corruption on electoral support. The results suggest that even types of corruption with side benefits would be harshly punished when attributed to incompetent politicians. They also indicate that while voters punish corruption more leniently when a candidate is competent, they respond negatively to corruption regardless of the prevalence of corruption, which casts doubt on the idea that voters in highly corrupt environments are acceptant of corruption.

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