Voting in a Multi-dimensional Space: A Conjoint Analysis Employing Valence and Ideology Attributes of Candidates

Franchino, Fabio; Zucchini, Francesco

doi:10.1017/psrm.2014.24

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“…). Such experiments typically involve participants making choices between two or more alternatives that vary along several dimensions and have recently been employed by political scientists to evaluate voter preferences over candidate attributes (Franchino & Zucchini ; Hainmueller et al. ).…”

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House or home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation

Vivyan

Wagner

2015

European J Political Res

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Forthcoming in the European Journal of Political Research AbstractIn many political systems legislators face a fundamental trade-off between allocating effort to constituency service and to national policy-making activities, respectively. How do voters want their elected representatives to solve this trade-off? We provide new insights into this question by developing a conjoint analysis approach to estimating voters' preferences over their legislator's effort allocation. We apply our approach in Britain and find that effort allocation has a significant effect on voter evaluations of legislators, even in a political system where other legislator attributes -in particular party affiliation -might be expected to predominate. This effect is non-linear, with voters generally preferring a moderate balance of constituency and national policy work. Preferences over legislator effort allocation are not well-explained by self-interest or more broadly by instrumental considerations. They are, however, associated with voters' local-cosmopolitan orientation, suggesting that heuristic reasoning based on underlying social dispositions may be more important in determining preferences over representative activities.

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House or home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation

Vivyan

Wagner

2015

European J Political Res

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“…Accordingly, a range of recent studies employ candidate choice experiments in which voters are asked to evaluate hypothetical candidates running either in legislative (e.g., Ono and Burden 2019; Franchino and Zucchini 2015; Carnes and Lupu 2016) or presidential elections (e.g., . These studies find that voters have significant preferences over gender (e.g., Ono and Burden 2019), age (e.g., Horiuchi et al 2018), occupational background (e.g., Carnes and Lupu 2016) and other valence related attributes of candidates (e.g., Franchino and Zucchini 2015). Focusing on voter preferences for candidates that stand to represent them in office is undoubtedly of great relevance.…”

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Party Elites’ Preferences in Candidates: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment

Rehmert

2020

Polit Behav

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Party elites selecting candidates are crucial for the composition of parliament. Yet, despite their pivotal position within the party, we know only little about their preferences for potential candidates and how their own backgrounds shape these preferences. This paper presents results from a conjoint experiment carried out with party delegates chosen to select the candidates for five German parties in the run-up to three state elections. Theoretical expectations derived from the principle-agent framework on delegates’ preferences in candidates are evaluated. Analyses show that delegates prefer attributes indicative of quality and socio-demographic similarity in candidates. Additionally, I show that these preferences for candidates differ between inexperienced and experienced delegates, the latter showing a stronger preference for valence attributes in candidates. These findings contribute to our understanding of the role of personal attributes of selectors for candidate selection and hold crucial implications for the composition of legislatures and long-term effects on public policy.

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“…This means that we can test whether ideological position has an effect even when respondents are given a number of other cues about a party's likely competence. Conjoint experiments are now widely used in political science, with recent studies examining, for instance, attitudes toward different kinds of immigrants, political candidates, and members of Parliament (Franchino and Zucchini ; Hainmueller, Hangartner, and Yamamoto ; Vivyan and Wagner , ). Nevertheless, to our knowledge, this is the first time that the conjoint design has been used to present profiles of political parties.…”

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“…This strategy of policy moderation when enjoying a valence advantage appears vindicated by Franchino and Zucchini's () finding that competence perceptions matter more when voters consider a candidate close to them ideologically. Moving from candidates to parties, Green () makes a parallel claim, showing that valence matters more when parties have converged since there is less ideological basis for choice.…”

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Moderation and Competence: How a Party's Ideological Position Shapes Its Valence Reputation

Johns

Kölln

2019

American J Political Sci

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We combine several strands of research from electoral behavior and party politics to suggest that ideological moderation will boost a party's perceived competence. Less radical parties are seen as readier to compromise, more realistic about what can be achieved, and less prone to simplistic solutions. The results of conjoint experiments with party profiles show that while an ideological leaning carries no cost, any appreciably left‐ or right‐wing position eroded a party's perceived competence among a representative sample of around 2,000 British citizens. This effect holds when controlling for respondents’ ideological proximity to the party in question, and it looks to operate through all three of the proposed mechanisms suggested above—especially willingness to compromise. These findings have important implications both for party strategy and for voting research, highlighting a key channel through which ideological moderation yields electoral gains.

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Voting in a Multi-dimensional Space: A Conjoint Analysis Employing Valence and Ideology Attributes of Candidates

Cited by 75 publications

References 57 publications

House or home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation

House or home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation

Party Elites’ Preferences in Candidates: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment

Moderation and Competence: How a Party's Ideological Position Shapes Its Valence Reputation

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