Negative personalization and voting behavior in 14 parliamentary democracies, 1961–2018
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In this article, a longitudinal assessment of the relationship between negativity towards party leaders and vote choice in multi-party systems is presented, and the existence of a robust relationship between negative party-leader evaluations and voters' vote choice is confirmed.About:
This article is published in Electoral Studies.The article was published on 2021-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Voting behavior & Polarization (politics).read more
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Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the role of personality traits in negative campaigning and found that kinder and more stable candidates tend to go less negative; when they do, they tend to stay away from character-based attacks and somehow focus on issues.
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When conflict fuels negativity. A large-scale comparative investigation of the contextual drivers of negative campaigning in elections worldwide
Jürgen Maier,Alessandro Nai +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigate the contextual conditions under which campaigns in elections worldwide are fought "negatively" that is, rely on attacks against political opponents, and test the overarching intuition that societal, political, and cultural conflicts in the country are associated with greater negativity in election campaigns; conflicts, they argue, sow political discord.
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Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies:
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the role of negativity in public opinion and political behavior research and found that negativity plays an important role in public opinions and political behaviour research, and that negative information can influence public opinion.
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When conflict fuels negativity. A large-scale comparative investigation of the contextual drivers of negative campaigning in elections worldwide
TL;DR: The authors investigate the contextual conditions under which campaigns in elections worldwide are fought "negatively", that is, rely on attacks against political opponents. But their results show that countries in which elections are fought under a majoritarian or plurality rule tend to witness higher campaign negativity, and so are countries characterized by higher income inequality, deeper ethnic fragmentation and higher individualism.
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