Leader Change, Time in Office and the Determinants of Voter Perceptions

IF 1.3 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Parliamentary Affairs Pub Date : 2021-08-14 DOI:10.1093/pa/gsab040

Jack Bridgewater

引用次数: 2

Abstract

There is a significant literature on the role of both parties and leaders in electoral politics and a broad understanding of the strength of the relationship between the two in voters’ minds. However, less has been done to determine if there is systematic variation in whether voters see a party and its leader as one and the same. I address this question by using the Comparative Study of Electoral System to measure the impact of leader changes on voter perceptions. I find that new leaders are less likely to be evaluated according to the party they represent, with some evidence that maintaining the same leader over a long period of time increases the association between leader and party.

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领导人更替、执政时间和选民看法的决定因素

关于两党和领导人在选举政治中的作用，有大量文献，对选民心目中两党和领导人之间的关系有着广泛的理解。然而，在确定选民是否将一个政党及其领导人视为一体方面是否存在系统性差异方面，人们做得很少。我通过使用选举制度的比较研究来衡量领导人变化对选民认知的影响，从而解决这个问题。我发现，新领导人不太可能根据他们所代表的政党进行评估，一些证据表明，长期保持同一领导人会增加领导人和政党之间的联系。

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Parliamentary Affairs POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.00

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8.30%

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