Inspected by #1184063113: The Influence of Incumbents' Competence and Integrity in U.S. House Elections

McCurley, Carl; Mondak, Jeffery J.

doi:10.2307/2111660

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“…Adams et al 2011;Clark 2009;Clark and Leiter 2014;Funk 1996;Funk 1999;Kulisheck and Mondak 1996;McCurley and Mondak 1995;Mondak and Huckfeldt 2006;Stone and Simas 2010). "Maintain the level of provision of social services and taxation" "Cut taxes, even at the cost of fewer social services"…”

Section: A Conjoint Analysis Voting Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting in a Multi-dimensional Space: A Conjoint Analysis Employing Valence and Ideology Attributes of Candidates

Franchino¹,

Zucchini²

2014

PSRM

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Valence matters in voting behaviour, but how exactly? A large body of scholarly research concludes that valence adds a second important dimension to the standard policy-based electoral competition. Valence issues have the peculiar property of voters having identical preferences over them. They all prefer more to less of a given valence attribute. They prefer more to less competent politicians; they prefer more to less honest politicians. Fittingly, Groseclose (2007) argues that valence adds 'half' a dimension to the standard one-dimensional Downsian model of electoral competition.Indeed, most formal models of electoral competition add a single and separable valence component to the voters' utility function (e.g.

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Section: A Conjoint Analysis Voting Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting in a Multi-dimensional Space: A Conjoint Analysis Employing Valence and Ideology Attributes of Candidates

Franchino¹,

Zucchini²

2014

PSRM

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“…A number of studies find a direct and strong relationship between voters' appraisals of candidates' traits and their choices for president (e.g., Kinder 1986;Markus 1982;Miller and Miller 1976;Miller and Shanks 1996;Miller et al 1986) and congress (McCurley and Mondak 1995) in the U.S., as well as in parliamentary elections outside the U.S. (e.g., Bean and Mughan 1989;Stewart and Clarke 1992).…”

Section: Voting Booth Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Terrorist Threat, Leadership, and the Vote: Evidence from Three Experiments

Merolla

Zechmeister

2009

Polit Behav

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From 9/11 in the U.S. to train, subway, and airport bombings elsewhere, individuals frequently must make political decisions in the shadow of terrorist attacks. To date, few studies have examined how times of terror threat influence voters' decision-making processes. Using data generated from three experiments we show that, in times of terrorist threat (compared to good times), individuals weight leadership more heavily in the voting booth. Our results also shed light on how much weight is given to other determinants of the vote (issues and partisanship) across these two conditions.Keywords Candidate traits Á Leadership Á Threat Á Voting behavior Á Experiment Á Terrorism Citizens around the globe increasingly have to make political evaluations and decisions under conditions in which terrorist attacks have occurred or are threatened. In 2004, voters in Spain went to the polls just days after devastating train bombings in Madrid. In U.S. presidential and congressional elections post-9/11 to the present day, the media and various political campaigns have frequently made salient the possibility of another terrorist attack. How do voting decisions made

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“…integrity and competence (Besley, 2005, p. 47;McCurley and Mondak, 1995;Mondak, 1995). Since democratic politics is ultimately a process for constructing and realising the collective good, politicians must also have the skills and capabilities to operate within this process and to make it work (Hay, 2007, p. 2).…”

Section: The (Relative) Importance Of Honesty In Political Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some research shows that elected representatives' integrity exerts a more powerful effect on vote choice than their competence (McCurley and Mondak, 1995). Yet other research shows that voters often compromise on honesty in practice, either because they receive particular benefits, are predisposed to give fellow partisans the benefit of the doubt or simply lack information (Dimock and Jacobson, 1995;Rundquist et al, 1977;Winters and Weitz-Shapiro, 2013 (Mayer, 2010, p. 125).…”

Section: The (Relative) Importance Of Honesty In Political Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Honesty above all else? Expectations and perceptions of political conduct in three established democracies

2016

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Many citizens across the liberal democratic world are highly critical of their elected representatives' conduct. Drawing on original survey data from Britain, France and Germany, this paper offers a unique insight into prevailing attitudes across Europe's three largest democracies. It finds remarkable consistencies in the ethical priorities of British, French and German citizens: although there is some individual-level variation, respondents in all three countries overwhelmingly prioritise having honest representatives. It also finds differences in the types of behaviour that cause most concern in each country. The paper then examines how individuals' preferences shape their concerns about prevailing standards. The findings 2 are consistent with the idea that citizens' predispositions have an 'anchoring' effect on perceptions of political integrity. Finally, the paper considers whether established democracies are susceptible to an 'expectations gap' between citizens' expectations of conduct and what 'normal' politics can realistically deliver.

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Inspected by #1184063113: The Influence of Incumbents' Competence and Integrity in U.S. House Elections

Cited by 113 publications

References 11 publications

Voting in a Multi-dimensional Space: A Conjoint Analysis Employing Valence and Ideology Attributes of Candidates

Voting in a Multi-dimensional Space: A Conjoint Analysis Employing Valence and Ideology Attributes of Candidates

Terrorist Threat, Leadership, and the Vote: Evidence from Three Experiments

Honesty above all else? Expectations and perceptions of political conduct in three established democracies

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