Kinder and gentler ministers in consensus democracies? Personality and the selection of government members

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Politics Pub Date : 2022-08-12 DOI:10.1177/02633957221116507

Martina Flick Witzig, A. Vatter

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Abstract

This study examines the personality traits of candidates for the Swiss government and how they are related to the candidates’ electoral chances. Switzerland as a paradigmatic consensual democracy is an ideal test case to examine the connection between the specific pattern of a democracy and the government personalities that fit it. We argue that the cultural and institutional setting of the Swiss Government increases the electoral chances of kinder and gentler personalities. To test this, we estimate regression models on a new data set of candidates covering all vacancies in the Swiss government between 1982 and 2020. Our results reveal that candidates with a higher level of agreeableness do enjoy an advantage in the electoral process for Swiss consensus government.

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共识民主国家的部长们会更友善更温和吗?人格与政府成员的选择

这项研究考察了瑞士政府候选人的性格特征，以及他们与候选人的选举机会之间的关系。瑞士作为一个典型的协商一致的民主国家，是一个理想的测试案例，可以检验民主的具体模式与适合它的政府人物之间的联系。我们认为，瑞士政府的文化和制度环境增加了更友善、更温和的人的选举机会。为了检验这一点，我们对1982年至2020年间瑞士政府所有职位空缺的新候选人数据集进行了回归模型估计。我们的结果表明，在瑞士共识政府的选举过程中，具有较高亲和力的候选人确实享有优势。

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