For Whom the Bell Tolls: Black Opinion on the Death Penalty
In: Western Political Science Association 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: California Journal of Politics and Policy, Band 3, Heft 1
In: California Journal of Politics and Policy, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 1103
In: California journal of politics and policy, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 1-27
ISSN: 1944-4370
In: Representation, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 151-165
ISSN: 1749-4001
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 61-82
ISSN: 1460-3683
Empirical election studies conclude that party elites' images with respect to competence, integrity and party unity -- attributes that we label character-based valence -- affect their electoral support (Stone and Simas, 2010). We compile observations of media reports pertaining to governing party elites' character-based valence attributes, and we relate the content of these reports to mass support for the governing parties. We present pooled, time-series, analyses of party support and valence-related media reports in six European polities which suggest that these reports exert powerful electoral effects during election campaigns but little effect during off-election periods. This finding, which we label the Election Period Valence Effect, is consistent with previous work concluding that citizens are also more attentive to policy-based considerations and to national economic conditions around the time of elections. These findings have implications for political representation and for understanding election outcomes. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 61-82
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 61-82
ISSN: 1460-3683
Empirical election studies conclude that party elites' images with respect to competence, integrity and party unity – attributes that we label character-based valence – affect their electoral support (Stone and Simas, 2010). We compile observations of media reports pertaining to governing party elites' character-based valence attributes, and we relate the content of these reports to mass support for the governing parties. We present pooled, time-series, analyses of party support and valence-related media reports in six European polities which suggest that these reports exert powerful electoral effects during election campaigns but little effect during off-election periods. This finding, which we label the Election Period Valence Effect, is consistent with previous work concluding that citizens are also more attentive to policy-based considerations and to national economic conditions around the time of elections. These findings have implications for political representation and for understanding election outcomes.