Fostering turnout?: Assessing party leaders' capacity to mobilize voters

Silva, Frederico Ferreira da

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2018.09.013

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“…As Lutz and Marsh (2007) argue, numerous turnout side effects are so contradictory, that "any bias in election outcomes is typically rather small and is not in a specific direction" (p. 539). The interchange between the "core" (voters with a high degree of political consciousness and civic responsibility) and an approximately equal-sized "swamp" occurs from election to election, which makes their results directly dependent on the mobilization capacity of parties and candidates (Da Silva, 2018). Parties, in turn, can become institutionally more active due to CV, even if the system has no direct effect on their electorate (Held, 2023).…”

Section: Changing Beneficiaries Of High Turnoutmentioning

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Assessing the Relationship Between Compulsory Voting and the Over-Representation of Extreme Parties

Ankudinov

2024

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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In this paper, we address the issue of partisan bias in compulsory voting systems. Given the current global trends – declining trust in mainstream political parties, rising support for left- and right-wing radicals, growing populism and anti-elite sentiment – we seek to determine how they manifest themselves in an environment where citizens are required to vote by law. To answer this question, a quasi-experimental design is proposed. The data show that forced activity does not affect either extreme forces support rates (from a cross-country perspective) or the rationality of their voters (from an individual-level perspective). As far as we know, this is the first attempt to generalize the role of compulsory voting in extreme politics, as well as the first one to refute this role with ample evidence.

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Section: Changing Beneficiaries Of High Turnoutmentioning

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Assessing the Relationship Between Compulsory Voting and the Over-Representation of Extreme Parties

Ankudinov

2024

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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“…Research steaming from the presidentialization of politics has been especially prolific in providing evidence concerning the electoral face of the presidentialization, with numerous studies confirming the impact of voters’ assessment of party leaders in their voting decisions (Ferreira da Silva, 2018; Garzia, 2014; Lobo and Curtice, 2014; Mughan, 2015). This electoral face is more commonly conceptualized as centralized personalization, describing a process of concentration of power and prominence in a single individual at the expenses of the collective (e.g.…”

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Party organizational change and leader effects on voting behavior: Linking the electoral and party faces of presidentialization

Silva

2019

Party Politics

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Changes in electoral markets in the late 20th century have forced political parties to adapt. Having lost much support and facing growing disaffection, parties often resorted to organizational structure reforms as means to reengage with a debased electorate. This article explores the impact of two changes in party organization—democratization of leadership selection procedures and increasing leadership power—on the extent to which leaders have an effect on voting behavior. In doing so, it analyzes the understudied interconnection between the electoral and the party faces of the presidentialization of politics thesis. The results provide mixed evidence regarding the relationship between both dimensions of presidentialization: more leadership power boosts leader effects, but only non-divisive direct leadership elections favor leader effects. This is a comparative study on Western democracies, combining individual-level data from the Comparative of Study of Electoral Systems with contextual data from the Political Party Database Project.

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“…Why do voters change their evaluation of party leaders? The electoral impact of voters’ evaluations of party leaders in parliamentary elections has been extensively covered (Aarts et al, 2011; Bittner, 2011, 2018b; Costa and Ferreira da Silva, 2015; Ferreira da Silva, 2018; Garzia, 2014, 2017; Lobo and Curtice, 2014; Mughan, 2015) and the influence of party leaders in elections may further increase as established democracies tend to become more and more personalised (Kriesi, 2012; Poguntke and Webb, 2005; Rahat and Kenig, 2018; Rahat and Sheafer, 2007; Wattenberg, 1991). Although it has also been argued that party leaders have always had an electoral impact (Bittner, 2018a).…”

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The effect of voters’ economic perception, Brexit and campaigns on the evaluation of party leaders over time

Berz

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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When and why do voters change their evaluation of party leaders? Voters’ evaluations of party leaders are an increasingly important determinant of electoral behaviour. Which factors influence these evaluations of party leaders? Do voters evaluate party leaders who hold the office of prime minister differently from other party leaders, and do electoral campaigns and issues change these evaluations? I use a multilevel growth model with panel data from the United Kingdom to analyse effects over time. I find that campaigns play a significant role and that voters’ stance on Brexit has a considerable time-varying effect. In addition, voters use economic performance as a valence signal for party leaders holding the office of prime minister and therefore hold them accountable for bad economic performance, especially during election campaigns. These findings show that the personalization of politics may endanger the democratic function of elections to a lesser extent than is commonly feared.

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Fostering turnout?: Assessing party leaders' capacity to mobilize voters

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Assessing the Relationship Between Compulsory Voting and the Over-Representation of Extreme Parties

Assessing the Relationship Between Compulsory Voting and the Over-Representation of Extreme Parties

Party organizational change and leader effects on voting behavior: Linking the electoral and party faces of presidentialization

The effect of voters’ economic perception, Brexit and campaigns on the evaluation of party leaders over time

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