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Who has room for error? The effects of political scandal for minority candidates

Akhil Rajan, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2022 - 
- Vol. 77, pp 102460-102460
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This article found that minority candidates are less likely to win elected office than their more "traditional" counterparts in the aftermath of scandal, and that the mechanism for lessened electability does not lie in greater penalties.
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This article is published in Electoral Studies.The article was published on 2022-06-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vignette & Politics.

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Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment

Manu Savani, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2023 - 
TL;DR: This article used Schwartz's theory of values to hypothesise that voters prioritising universalism and benevolence are less likely to vote for candidates accused of sexual harassment compared to voters who prioritise self-enhancement values.
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Do Scandals Matter?

TL;DR: The authors examines presidential, gubernatorial, and Congressional scandals from 1972 to 2021 to assess the impact of scandal in a polarizing America, finding that politicians generally survived scandal more in the polarized era, hinting at the changing role of political scandals.
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Perlindungan hukum melalui affirmative action pada pemilihan legislatif 2019 di cilacap

TL;DR: In this paper , a metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan pendekaten yuridis normatif and yuriidis empiris, dilakukan dengan mengamati aktivitas pra pileg.
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Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors show that voters of radical parties are more likely to support corrupt politicians when the alternative is to support a politician who takes a fundamentally different policy stance, and they also show how strengths of partisan attachment affect voting for corrupt candidates.
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Validating vignette and conjoint survey experiments against real-world behavior

TL;DR: Comparing the results from conjoint and vignette experiments on which attributes of hypothetical immigrants generate support for naturalization with the outcomes of closely corresponding referendums in Switzerland, it is found that the effects estimated from the surveys match the effects of the same attributes in the behavioral benchmark remarkably well.
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Measuring Political Knowledge: Putting First Things First

TL;DR: For instance, the authors describes the development and testing of survey-based measures of political knowledge, with special attention to the existing items on the National Election Study surveys, and illustrates the use of a variety of techniques for item analysis and scale construction.
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Economic Retrospective Voting in American National Elections: A Micro-Analysis*

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from the 1956 to 1974 SRC election studies to uncover an individual-level basis for the macro-relationship found by earlier studies, finding no system-atic relationship between a citizen's personal economic condition and his decision to vote or abstain.

The adequacy of the european social survey to measure values in 20 countries

TL;DR: The Schwartz (1992) theory of basic human values has promoted a revival of empirical research on values, allowing researchers to study relationships among values, attitudes, behavior and socio-demographic characteristics across countries, and the ESS values scale demonstrates configural and metric invariance.
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Validating the demographic, political, psychological, and experimental results obtained from a new source of online survey respondents:

TL;DR: Researchers have increasingly turned to online convenience samples as sources of survey responses that are easy and inexpensive to collect as discussed by the authors. But as reliance on these sources has grown, so too have conce...
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