Ballot Paper Photographs and Low-Information Elections in Ireland

Buckley, Fiona; Collins, Neil; Reidy, Theresa

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9256.2007.00297.x

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“…This judgement takes place immediately, and Willis and Todorov (2006) showed that the evaluation of a person is stable even if a picture was shown only for a very short period of time. Attractiveness matters for electoral success too, as experimental studies have shown where participants had to make a choice between different pictures (Antonakis and Dalgas 2009;Ballew and Todorov 2007;Little et al 2007;Sigelman et al 1987;Todorov et al 2005) and where physical attractiveness increased the likelihood of getting elected (Banducci et al 2008;Berggren et al 2010;Buckley et al 2007;King and Leigh 2009;Klein and Rosar 2005;Leigh and Susilo 2009;Rosar and Klein forthcomming;Rosar et al 2008;Sigelman et al 1987).…”

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“…This attractiveness score is then used as an independent variable in statistical models estimating electoral success. Most such empirical studies on physical attractiveness focus on candidate choices in majoritarian elections such as direct candidate elections in Germany's mixed members system (Klein and Rosar 2005;Rosar et al 2008;Rosar and Klein forthcoming), Australia's national (King and Leigh 2009) and local level elections (Leigh and Susilo 2009) or the STV system in Ireland (Buckley et al 2007). In such elections, candidates matter a great deal.…”

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The Electoral Success of Beauties and Beasts

Lütz

2010

Swiss Political Sci Review

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The Electoral Success of Beauties and Beasts

Lütz

2010

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…Judgments of competence from briefly presented (i.e., 1/10 s) face images have predicted outcomes in elections for United States (US) congress [2], governor [3], and president [4]. Quick leadership judgments from faces have also been found to predict voting decisions in the United Kingdom [5], [6], Canada [7], Australia [8], Ireland [9], Italy [10], and Japan [11]. Children’s judgments of leadership can predict electoral success as well, and closely match leadership judgments made by adults [12].…”

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Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability

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Judgments of leadership ability from face images predict the outcomes of actual political elections and are correlated with leadership success in the corporate world. The specific facial cues that people use to judge leadership remain unclear, however. Physical height is also associated with political and organizational success, raising the possibility that facial cues of height contribute to leadership perceptions. Consequently, we assessed whether cues to height exist in the face and, if so, whether they are associated with perception of leadership ability. We found that facial cues to perceived height had a strong relationship with perceived leadership ability. Furthermore, when allowed to manually manipulate faces, participants increased facial cues associated with perceived height in order to maximize leadership perception. A morphometric analysis of face shape revealed that structural facial masculinity was not responsible for the relationship between perceived height and perceived leadership ability. Given the prominence of facial appearance in making social judgments, facial cues to perceived height may have a significant influence on leadership selection.

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“…Buckley et al (2007) base their analysis on a feature of local elections in the Republic of Ireland:…”

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It's the Occupation, Stupid! Explaining Candidates' Success in Low-Information Elections

Mechtel

2011

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Do voters use ballot paper information on the personal characteristics of political candidates as cues in low-information elections? Using a unique dataset containing 4423 political candidates from recent elections in Germany, we show that candidates' occupations do play an important role in their electoral success. The occupational impact is far greater than gender or doctoral degree effects for a large number of occupations. We discuss three possible explanations for these "occupational effects": (a) an occupation's public reputation, (b) the extent to which individuals carrying out certain occupations are known within their communities, and (c) occupation specific competence related to issues relevant for local politics. Looking at polls on the reputation/prestige of certain jobs, we find a strong correlation between an occupation's reputation and the electoral success of a candidate carrying out this occupation. Therefore, voters appear to use occupational reputation as a cue in low-information elections. Terms of use: Documents in

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Ballot Paper Photographs and Low-Information Elections in Ireland

Cited by 39 publications

References 14 publications

The Electoral Success of Beauties and Beasts

The Electoral Success of Beauties and Beasts

Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability

It's the Occupation, Stupid! Explaining Candidates' Success in Low-Information Elections

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