Emotions and Voting

Redlawsk, David P.; Habegger, Michael W.

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“…Against this background, this article examines the impact of citizens' emotional reactions to immigration towards their preferences for common EU immigration and counter-terrorism policies. Emotions influence the ways in which individuals perceive and process threats and how they form their opinions (Brader and Marcus 2013;Redlawsk and Pierce 2017). Previous work has examined the effects of emotions across policy domains, including terrorism (e.g., Keltner 2000, 2001;Huddy et al, 2005Huddy et al, , 2007, immigration (e.g., Brader et al 2008;Erisen and Kentmen-Cin 2017), climate change (Davydova et al 2018), and economic crisis (Magni 2017).…”

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Emotional reactions to immigration and support for EU cooperation on immigration and terrorism

Erişen

Vasilopoulou

Kentmen-Çin

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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What explains variation in European citizens' support for common EU immigration and counter-terrorism policies? We advance extant literature that focuses on the utility versus identity debate by focusing on individuals' emotional reactions. Drawing on theories of affect, we show that citizens' emotions about immigration are integral to their preferences for EU cooperation on the dual questions of immigration and terrorism. We hypothesise that while anger about immigration is associated with opposition to cooperation on both policies, fear about immigration is associated with support for a common EU counter-terrorism strategy. Using a large-N crosssectional survey conducted in Germany and the Netherlands, our analyses confirm our hypotheses. Our findings have implications for the progress of European integration and the scope of public approval of EU common policies.

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Emotional reactions to immigration and support for EU cooperation on immigration and terrorism

Erişen

Vasilopoulou

Kentmen-Çin

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…In this paper we extend this by considering a set of discrete moral emotions and examining how these moral emotional responses depend on voters' own moral principles and partisan group identity. Discrete emotional responses in politics have been shown to affect voter turnout, candidate evaluation, and attention to politics, among other things (Marcus et al, 2000;Redlawsk, 2006;Redlawsk & Pierce, 2017). It is not unreasonable to think they would matter for moral transgressions.…”

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The Effects of Politician’s Moral Violations on Voters' Moral Emotions

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Redlawsk

2021

Polit Behav

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Existing empirical research on voters’ responses to individual politicians’ moral transgressions pays limited attention to moral emotions, although moral emotions are an integral part of voters’ moral judgment. This study looks at U.S. voters’ discrete moral emotional responses to politician’s moral violations and examines how these discrete moral emotional responses are dependent on voters’ own moral principles and the extent to which they identify with a political party. We report on a 5 × 3 between-subjects experiment where 2026 U.S. respondents reacted to politicians’ violations of one of five moral foundations defined by Moral Foundations Theory. We randomly vary which moral foundation is violated and the partisanship of the politician. While voters’ own moral principles somewhat condition moral emotional responses, we find that voters’ moral emotional responses mostly depend on partisan identification. When voters share party identity with a politician committing a moral violation, they respond with less anger, contempt, disgust and shame than when they do not share party identity. The effect is greater among strong partisans. However, we find limited evidence that specific moral emotions are activated by violations of particular moral foundations, thereby challenging Moral Foundations Theory.

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“…The effect of emotive language appears to be present even when the speech is solely transmitted in a written format (Heath 2017;Yeung 2007). Political psychologists often argue that "politics is about feeling" (Redlawsk 2006) as much as it is about thinking (Redlawsk and Pierce 2017). Indeed, previous works have pointed out that people often use emotional expressions to convince others and to send a signal of their own attitude toward a topic (Rocklage, Rucker, and Nordgren 2018;Van Kleef, van den Berg, and Heerdink 2015).…”

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Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments

2021

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Research has shown that emotions matter in politics, but we know less about when and why politicians use emotive rhetoric in the legislative arena. This article argues that emotive rhetoric is one of the tools politicians can use strategically to appeal to voters. Consequently, we expect that legislators are more likely to use emotive rhetoric in debates that have a large general audience. Our analysis covers two million parliamentary speeches held in the UK House of Commons and the Irish Parliament. We use a dictionary-based method to measure emotive rhetoric, combining the Affective Norms for English Words dictionary with word-embedding techniques to create a domain-specific dictionary. We show that emotive rhetoric is more pronounced in high-profile legislative debates, such as Prime Minister’s Questions. These findings contribute to the study of legislative speech and political representation by suggesting that emotive rhetoric is used by legislators to appeal directly to voters.

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Emotions and Voting

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Emotional reactions to immigration and support for EU cooperation on immigration and terrorism

Emotional reactions to immigration and support for EU cooperation on immigration and terrorism

The Effects of Politician’s Moral Violations on Voters' Moral Emotions

Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments

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