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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...
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010 - Revised version: February 8, 2012
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008760516
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
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/10012779320
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049900
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The right look : conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808225
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound … to have political consequences. We show that politicians on the right look more beautiful in Europe, the United States … candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289386
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230687
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129912
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131348
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The looks of a winner: beauty, gender, and electoral success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264132