2019
DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v7i2.918
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The electoral success of angels and demons: Big Five, Dark Triad, and performance at the ballot box

Abstract: The article tests whether the personality of candidates – in terms of their Big Five (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness) and Dark triad (narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) – is associated with their electoral results. Via a novel dataset based on expert ratings for 122 candidates having competed in 55 recent national elections worldwide, and controlling for several covariates, results show that a better performance at the ballot box is associated with… Show more

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“…The profile emerging from our analyses seems to triangulate with what is known about the electoral success of personality profiles: our results suggest that autocrats differ especially on agreeableness and psychopathy from non-autocrats (respectively, with lower and higher average scores), and those two traits are the ones that have been suggested as potentially relevant to explain the electoral success of candidates (Joly, Soroka, and Loewen 2018;Nai 2019b;Scott and Medeiros 2020). Are autocrats especially benefitting from high psychopathy and low agreeableness, more so than other non-autocrats?…”
Section: Implications and Further Researchsupporting
confidence: 63%
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“…The profile emerging from our analyses seems to triangulate with what is known about the electoral success of personality profiles: our results suggest that autocrats differ especially on agreeableness and psychopathy from non-autocrats (respectively, with lower and higher average scores), and those two traits are the ones that have been suggested as potentially relevant to explain the electoral success of candidates (Joly, Soroka, and Loewen 2018;Nai 2019b;Scott and Medeiros 2020). Are autocrats especially benefitting from high psychopathy and low agreeableness, more so than other non-autocrats?…”
Section: Implications and Further Researchsupporting
confidence: 63%
“…We can only speculate as to why these two traits do not differ significantly between autocrats and non-autocrats. The fact that these two traits have been shown to be particularly important for political success in generalconscientiousness for a stronger electoral performance (Nai 2019b) and openness for a better success once in office (Rubenzer, Faschingbauer, and Ones 2000;Simonton 2006)might indicate that they are particularly important for political leadership in general, for both autocrats and non-autocrats alike.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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