they arrive to vote. Using raters chosen to be representative of the electorate, we assess the beauty of political … candidates from major political parties, and then estimate the effect of beauty on voteshare for candidates in the 2004 federal … election. Beautiful candidates are indeed more likely to be elected, with a one standard deviation increase in beauty …

they arrive to vote. Using raters chosen to be representative of the electorate, we assess the beauty of political … candidates from major political parties, and then estimate the effect of beauty on voteshare for candidates in the 2004 federal … election. Beautiful candidates are indeed more likely to be elected, with a one standard deviation increase in beauty …

candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and …Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound … redistribution. Accordingly, our model predicts that voters use beauty as a cue for conservatism when they do not know much about …

municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections … data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial …

municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters especially those to the … right use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections. …

success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …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 …

Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections … 6% in the 2000-2006 U.S. Senate elections because they fielded candidates who looked more competent. These shifts are … Republicans also won nine of the 15 gubernatorial elections where looks were decisive. Using Finnish data, we also show that …

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …

candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and …Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound … redistribution. Accordingly, our model predicts that voters use beauty as a cue for conservatism when they do not know much about …

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …