Loosened Partisan Attachments and Receptivity to Incumbent Behaviors: A Panel Analysis, 1972-1976

Romero, David W.; Sanders, Francine

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“…Indeed, the lack of partisan attachments would lead to the enhancement of the incumbent's visibility in voter decisions (1972: 1240). This finding has been more rigorously confirmed by studies at the individual level, using either cross-sectional data (Ferejohn, 1977;Cox & Katz, 1996) or panel data (Romero & Sanders 1994). A plausible implication is that the same may be said for those with no ideological attachments, as political competition in Europe mainly consists of ideology attachments rather than party identification (Fuchs & Klingemann, 1989).…”

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Voting without ideology. Evidence from Spain (1979-2008)

Calle,

Martínez,

Orriols

2024

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Although non-ideological voters make up a considerable share of the electorate, the literature has systematically overlooked their voting behaviour. Using Spanish electoral data from the 1979-2008 electoral period, we seek to identify the alternative cues ?in the absence of ideology? these voters may use when casting their ballot. We do not find that evaluations of the incumbent?s performance have a greater influence on non-ideological voters, as the retrospective voting literature suggests. Nor do we find that other shortcuts such as candidate evaluations or party identification are used more by this group when they vote. Instead, our results indicate that non-ideological voters have exchanged the traditional ideological shortcut for simple proincumbent voting as a decision rule.

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