Anti-Candidate Voting in Presidential Elections

Gant, Michael M.; Sigelman, Lee

doi:10.2307/3234953

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“…Research concerning political behavior has introduced the concept of "negative voting," the process of voting against something rather than for something. This concept has been studied in relation to U.S. midterm congressional elections (e.g., Born, 1990;Kernell, 1977), early voting (Stein, 1998), and U.S. presidential elections (e.g., Gant & Sigelman, 1985;Sigelman & Gant, 1989). The concept of negative voting stems from the reality that political behavior is not determined in full by factors that lead citizens toward particular political candidates or parties (e.g., H1).…”

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Assessing the Predictive Value of Parasocial Relationship Intensity in a Political Context

Cohen

Holbert

2018

Communication Research

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This study explores the ability of parasocial relationships to predict support for political candidates and elected officials. A May 2017 survey of U.S. adults ( N = 2,055) included items that reflect traditional approaches to the study of candidate support (e.g., political party identification, policy agreement) along with several batteries of a newly developed political parasocial relationship (PPSR) measure. This study gives primary attention to predicting support for U.S. President Donald J. Trump, but also focuses on Secretary Hillary Clinton and U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Parasocial relations prove to be a powerful predictor of Trump-Support, outperforming all other predictors (including past voting behavior). This study also explores what predicts citizen-politician PPSR. Citizens’ parasocial relationships with Trump are predicted by general political knowledge (–), 2016 Trump voting (+), support for Trump’s policies (+), along with news media exposure (+), and social media following of Trump (+).

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Section: Hypotheses and Research Questionmentioning

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Assessing the Predictive Value of Parasocial Relationship Intensity in a Political Context

Cohen

Holbert

2018

Communication Research

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“…Drawing from cognitive dissonance theory, a strand of psychological literature conceived negative voting as a rationalization mechanism among voters facing conflicting preferences between party identification, ideology and candidate assessments (Gant and Sigelman 1985;Sigelman and Gant 1989). A more recent strand of scholarship has tackled the issue of negative voting through the lens of negative partisanship.…”

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Italy in times of protest and negative voting: An introduction

Garzia

Passarelli

2021

QOE-IJES

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The classic heuristics of voting behaviour have been eroded overtime especially in well-established democracies. Ideology, party identification, and social class have been gradually replaced by short-period factors. In particular, the personalization has represented an innovative variable that significantly contributes to explain voting behaviour. Cross-pressures between party identification, candidate assessments and issue preferences paved the way to the diffusion of protest voting, both against the élite and the system. In this respect, Italy represents a very interesting case from both a theoretical and an empirical point view considering the presence of protest parties and the important diffusion of anti-system movements which surfed the protest to consolidate their positions. The editors conceived this special issue aiming at analysing and measuring the impact of protest/negative voting in Italy between 2016 and 2020, a period in which protest parties and voters’ discontent have significantly increased. Data presented by the different papers confirm, albeit under different perspectives, the relevance of this peculiar form of political behaviour.

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“…Conceptualized in a setting of more or less dyadic competition (presidential elections in the United States), anti‐candidate voting is conventionally regarded as occurring when a voter's decision is predicated upon negative affect toward one candidate regardless of that voter's feelings about the alternative (Gant and Sigelman, ; Sigelman and Gant, ). In a multicandidate setting, however, voter calculations are more complex, as competition considerations become more important.…”

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Voting “Ford” or Against: Understanding Strategic Voting in the 2014 Toronto Municipal Election

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McGregor

Moore

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Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. We investigate the phenomenon of municipal-level strategic voting in a high-profile mayoral election with a nonpartisan ballot. The rate of strategic voting is calculated, and we investigate whether different types of anti-candidate attitudes (based on policy or personality) affect strategic behavior. Methods. We use survey data from the 2014 Toronto Election Study. Results. The estimated rate of strategic voting was 1.3 percent. Among those who did cast a strategic ballot, we find that anti-candidate attitudes did not affect the likelihood of voting strategically-until the source of the dislike is considered, at which point electors who dislike a candidate on the basis of personality are shown to be more likely to cast their ballots strategically. Conclusions. Strategic voting was minimal, and did not affect the election outcome. The type of dislike toward a candidate (either on the basis of policy or personality) affects strategic behavior. * Direct correspondence to R. Michael McGregor, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St., Toronto, NO M58 2K3, Canada mmcgregor@ryerson.ca . R. Michael McGregor can also be contacted for data and coding for replication purposes.

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Anti-Candidate Voting in Presidential Elections

Cited by 32 publications

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Assessing the Predictive Value of Parasocial Relationship Intensity in a Political Context

Assessing the Predictive Value of Parasocial Relationship Intensity in a Political Context

Italy in times of protest and negative voting: An introduction

Voting “Ford” or Against: Understanding Strategic Voting in the 2014 Toronto Municipal Election

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