“…The personality of political leaders mattersand, indeed, scholars have been paying increasing attention to it recently (Bittner 2011;Watts et al 2013;Antonakis, House, and Simonton 2017;Visser, Book, and Volk 2017;Costa Lobo 2018;Nai, Martinez i Coma, and Maier 2018). Evidence exists that certain personality profiles could be more conducive to electoral successfor instance, Joly, Soroka, and Loewen (2018) find that politicians low in agreeableness tend to be more successful, Scott and Medeiros (2020) highlight the potentially detrimental role of openness, and Nai (2019b) shows that candidates high in conscientiousness and psychopathy tend to attract more votes, whereas extraversion might be detrimental. Beyond this direct effect, some research suggests that voters tend to vote for candidates with personalities that 'match' their own (Caprara et al 2003;Caprara and Zimbardo 2004;; but see Klingler, Hollibaugh, and Ramey 2018), while others suggest that some candidates might seem more appealing for voters with certain personality profile, but not for others; for instance, evidence suggests that conscientiousness is positively associated with support for one of the most important examples of contemporary autocratic tendencies -Vladimir Putin (Greene and Robertson 2017), and that voters scoring low on agreeableness are more likely to support populist parties (Bakker, Rooduijn, and Schumacher 2016).…”