کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1051928 946365 2011 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Yes we can! Valence politics and electoral choice in America, 2008
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم اجتماعی جغرافیا، برنامه ریزی و توسعه
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Yes we can! Valence politics and electoral choice in America, 2008
چکیده انگلیسی

The claim that the 2008 presidential election was a transformative one is fast becoming part of the conventional wisdom of American politics. Despite the election’s undoubted significance, this paper argues that factors affecting voting decisions were strikingly similar to those operating in many previous presidential elections. Using data from the CCAP six-wave national election survey, we demonstrate that a valence politics model provides a powerful, parsimonious explanation of the ballot decisions Americans made in 2008. As is typical in presidential elections, candidate images had major effects on electoral choice. Controlling for several other relevant factors, racial attitudes were strongly associated with how voters reacted to the candidates. Other models of electoral choice, such as a Downsian issue-proximity model, are also relevant, but their explanatory power is considerably less than that provided by the valence politics model.


► Valence politics model provides powerful explanation of voting in 2008 U.S. election.
► Economy was the dominant issue.
► Racial attitudes also were significant.
► Position issues were less important.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Electoral Studies - Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 450–461
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