Sanders, David and Clarke, Harold D and Stewart, Marianne C and Whiteley, Paul (2011) Downs, Stokes and the Dynamics of Electoral Choice. British Journal of Political Science, 41 (2). pp. 287-314. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123410000505
Sanders, David and Clarke, Harold D and Stewart, Marianne C and Whiteley, Paul (2011) Downs, Stokes and the Dynamics of Electoral Choice. British Journal of Political Science, 41 (2). pp. 287-314. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123410000505
Sanders, David and Clarke, Harold D and Stewart, Marianne C and Whiteley, Paul (2011) Downs, Stokes and the Dynamics of Electoral Choice. British Journal of Political Science, 41 (2). pp. 287-314. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123410000505
Abstract
<jats:p>A six-wave 2005–09 national panel survey conducted in conjunction with the British Election Study provided data for an investigation of sources of stability and change in voters’ party preferences. The authors test competing spatial and valence theories of party choice and investigate the hypothesis that spatial calculations provide cues for making valence judgements. Analyses reveal that valence mechanisms – heuristics based on party leader images, party performance evaluations and mutable partisan attachments – outperform a spatial model in terms of strength of direct effects on party choice. However, spatial effects still have sizeable indirect effects on the vote via their influence on valence judgements. The results of exogeneity tests bolster claims about the flow of influence from spatial calculations to valence judgments to electoral choice.</jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2012 21:43 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 17:02 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/3518 |
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