What makes a successful candidate? Political experience and low-information cues in elections
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Autor:innen
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2022
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
The Journal of Politics
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
84
Ausgabe / Nummer
4
Seiten / Dauer
2049-2063
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
University of Chicago Press
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Auflage
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Zusammenfassung
It is well established that politically experienced candidates are electorally more successful than “novices.” However, methodological challenges have prevented scholars from establishing how much of this is attributable to voters who use political experience as a cue to infer competence. Further, information about political experience may decrease the weight voters place on other, less informative cues. In a natural quasi-experiment, I exploit the condition that—in the 2015 Swiss national elections—information about candidates’ political experience on party ballots varied approximately at random. In line with cue-based accounts, I show that political experience is most of an asset if it is mentioned on the ballot. Contrary to expectations, however, these cues do not crowd out group-membership cues such as those based on a candidate’s migration background. The results from two original candidate choice survey experiments, designed to measure causal processes, further corroborate these findings.
Schlagwörter
cognitive shortcuts, immigrant-origin candidates, political experience, quality candidates, quasi-experiment, survey experiment, Switzerland, voter behavior
Fachgebiet (DDC)
Veranstaltung
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
1468-2508
0022-3816
0022-3816
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Nein
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Closed
Lizenz
Zitation
Portmann, L. (2022). What makes a successful candidate? Political experience and low-information cues in elections. The Journal of Politics, 84(4), 2049–2063. https://doi.org/10.1086/719638