Voter Perceptions and Incumbent Vote Loss

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fortunato
Keyword(s):  
Voter Perceptions

Voter perceptions of agenda power and attribution of responsibility for economic performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Duch ◽  
Randolph Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Voter Perceptions ◽  
Agenda Power

Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-139
Author(s):  
Jean Guillaume Forand ◽  
Gergely Ujhelyi
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Analysis ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Voter Perceptions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Workers

Many countries place restrictions on the political rights of government workers. This includes limitations on political activities such as taking an active part in political campaigns. Are such restrictions desirable? We present a formal welfare analysis of this question. Bureaucrats’ political activities affect voter perceptions of the government and this can have informational benefits. However, they can also induce policy mistakes and are susceptible to ‘noise’ from some bureaucrats’ innate desire for political expression. When politicians have limited control over bureaucrats and successfully coordinate with voters, bureaucrats’ political activities can be desirable. In most cases, however, banning political activities is optimal.

Does party rhetoric affect voter perceptions of party positions?

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 102153
Author(s):  
Zeynep Somer-Topcu ◽  
Margit Tavits ◽  
Markus Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Party Positions ◽  
Voter Perceptions

“An Inherited Money Dude from Queens County”: How Unseen Candidate Characteristics Affect Voter Perceptions

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 915-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared McDonald ◽  
David Karol ◽  
Lilliana Mason
Keyword(s):  
Candidate Characteristics ◽  
Voter Perceptions

Voter perceptions of parties’ left–right positions: The role of party strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 102239
Author(s):  
Mohamed Nasr
Keyword(s):  
Party Strategies ◽  
Voter Perceptions

scholarly journals ‘The enemy within’: Campaign attention and motivated reasoning in voter perceptions of intra-party conflict

2020 ◽  
pp. 135406882090640
Author(s):  
Carolina Plescia ◽  
Sylvia Kritzinger ◽  
Jakob-Moritz Eberl
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Party Strategies ◽  
Voter Perceptions ◽  
Broad Interest ◽  
Over Time

In spite of broad interest in internal party dynamics, with previous literature relatedly demonstrating that voters are not oblivious to party infighting, very little attention has been paid to the antecedents of voter perceptions of intra-party conflict. This article addresses this research deficit with the support of empirical evidence gathered over the course of the 2017 Austrian national election campaign. The study examines variations in perceived intra-party conflict over time, both across parties and within the same party. We find that although voter perceptions largely mirror actual distinctions in intra-party fighting, conspicuous individual-level variations can also be identified owing to attention to the election campaign and motivated reasoning in information processing. These results have important consequences for our understanding of voter perceptions of intra-party conflict and the role of election campaigns, with potential implications for party strategies during election campaigns.

Eschewing Obfuscation? Campaigns and the Perception of U.S. Senate Incumbents

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1193-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Roll Call ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Roll Call Voting ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Candidate Strategy ◽  
Senate Election ◽  
Voter Perceptions

Campaigns play a central role in a democracy. I examine the effect of campaigns on the perception of the ideological positions of incumbent senators. The results demonstrate that incumbents affect voter perception both through their actions in office and on the campaign trail. Using the 1988 Senate Election Study, I find that the perceived location of incumbents depends on their roll call voting records, the perceived position of their party and the voter's own position. More crucial is the finding that candidates can affect the clarity of these perceptions through their campaign strategies. Incumbents who stress issues increase the clarity of voter perceptions, while challengers' attacks on incumbents reduce clarity. While elections alone increase clarity, these effects are small in comparison to the effect due to candidate campaign strategies. The results remind us that to understand the politics of elections we must incorporate candidate strategy in our models.

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