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Why Do Voters Prefer Local Candidates? Evidence from a Danish Conjoint Survey Experiment
Political candidates enjoy a well-documented electoral advantage near their place of residence. But knowing that voters prefer candidates who live...
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Policy Objective of Military Intervention and Public Attitudes: A Conjoint Experiment from US and Turkey
This paper scrutinizes the role of the principal policy objective of military intervention in conditioning citizen attitudes for the use of force....
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Visual Conjoint vs. Text Conjoint and the Differential Discriminatory Effect of (Visible) Social Categories
Does learning political candidates’ social categories through visual cues affect voter preferences? This paper explores this question by conducting a...
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The Lure of Technocrats: A Conjoint Experiment on Preferences for Technocratic Ministers in Six European Countries
The aim of this research is to gauge public support for ministers who did not follow a typical “career politician” pathway prior to their nomination...
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The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark
Over the last three decades, Northern European countries have become net-receivers of immigrants from non-EU-countries. According to previous...
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Who Is “On Welfare”? Validating the Use of Conjoint Experiments to Measure Stereotype Content
We use the case of welfare recipients to validate conjoint experiments as a measure of stereotype content. Stereotypes are politically consequential,...
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Detecting Voter Understanding of Ideological Labels Using a Conjoint Experiment
Understanding voters’ conception of ideological labels is critical for political behavioral research. Conventional research designs have several...
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Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats
The design principles of institutions that visibly and significantly affect citizens’ lives are likely to be politically salient. Popular support for...
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Party Elites’ Preferences in Candidates: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment
Party elites selecting candidates are crucial for the composition of parliament. Yet, despite their pivotal position within the party, we know only...
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Immediate rewards or delayed gratification? A conjoint survey experiment of the public’s policy preferences
Previous scholarship has focused primarily on how citizens’ form policy preferences and how those preferences are taken into account in democratic...
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Realignment and voter issue preferences in Quebec’s 2018 provincial election: a conjoint experiment
In an election, political parties present positions on multiple policy issues. These competing sets of propositions are then evaluated by citizens on...
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Vertretung lokaler Interessen und die Wiederaufstellung von Listen-Abgeordneten im Deutschen Bundestag
How do party delegates evaluate the representation of local interests by legislators elected through closed party lists? The extant literature...
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CueAnon: What QAnon Signals About Congressional Candidates and What it Costs Them
Most research investigates why the public embraces conspiracy theories, but few studies empirically examine how Americans evaluate the politicians...
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Procedure Matters: The Distinct Attitudinal Feedback Effects of Immigration Policy
Natives who dislike immigrants prefer restrictive immigration policies, but do those policies deepen or alleviate anti-immigrant attitudes? Existing...
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Campaign Principal-Agent Problems: Volunteers as Faithful and Representative Agents
Volunteer-based voter contact presents multiple potential principal-agent problems for political campaigns. Conflicting potential solutions to these...
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Separated by Politics? Disentangling the Dimensions of Discrimination
How rampant is political discrimination in the United States, and how does it compare to other sources of bias in apolitical interactions? We employ...
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After the Flood: Disasters, Ideological Voting and Electoral Choices in Chile
Can natural disasters affect voters’ electoral choices, and in particular, ideological voting? Even as climate change has increased concerns about...
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Deserving Government Assistance? Public Support for Aid to Struggling Firms and Workers
Why does the public support government assistance for some firms and workers during hard times but not others? Much research has examined the role of...
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An Ideology by Any Other Name
The terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are prominent features of political discourse in the United States, and many citizens choose to identify with...
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Experimental Evidence of EU Issue Voting
The chapter focuses on the consequences of EU politicization on electoral behaviour. It investigates whether and under which conditions EU citizens...