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Correcting Mistakes: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes in Sweden and the United States
Elinder, Mikael - 2009
Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320412
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Local Economies and General Elections: The Influence of Municipal and Regional Economic Conditions on Voting in Sweden 1985–2002
Elinder, Mikael - 2010
This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters' responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and economic growth, using panel data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions, covering Swedish general elections from 1982 to 2002. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320411
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320093
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Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in … Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …-in-differences strategy for identification. We find clear evidence of prospective pocketbook voting. Voters respond to campaign promises but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320210
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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
Political candidates on the right are more beautiful or are seen as more competent than candidates on the left in Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections, which could in turn influence policy outcomes. As an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320237
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Faces of Politicians: Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success
Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009
Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320336
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Faces of Politicians : Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success
Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009
Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202783
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Practice Makes Voters? : Effects of Student Mock Elections on Turnout
Öhrvall, Richard; Oskarsson, Sven - 2019
having experienced a mock election as a student does not increase the likelihood of voting in subsequent real elections. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109316
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Do Voters Dislike Liberalizing Reforms? New Evidence Using Data on Satisfaction with Democracy
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116668