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Candidate Extremism and Voter Roll‐Off in US House Elections
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 791-821
ISSN: 1939-9162
Growing evidence suggests that extreme candidates perform worse, in part because their party's share of turnout declines. But does candidate ideology affect the decision of whether to abstain in a House race among voters who already turned out in the presidential election? I examine the relationship between candidates' ideology and voter abstention in the House contest, reporting two main results. First, fewer voters abstain in elections featuring more ideologically polarized House candidates. A consideration of party effects reveals more nuance, however: In most cases, roll‐off is lower when extreme candidates run, but the effect of an extreme Republican is substantially larger than that of an extreme Democrat. Further analysis suggests that decreased roll‐off is probably due to extreme candidates mobilizing out‐partisans. My results suggest that allowing for the possibility of voter abstention is an important theoretical addition to understanding the behavioral effects of extremist candidates.
Do Running Mates Matter? The Influence of Vice Presidential Candidates in Presidential Elections
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 136, Heft 2, S. 384-385
ISSN: 1538-165X
The Power of an Hour: Effects of Candidate Time Expenditure in State Legislative Elections
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 327-359
ISSN: 1939-9162
Using survey data from more than 500 legislative candidates in 17 states during the 2008 election, I examine whether state house candidates who devote more time to their campaign win a larger share of the major‐party vote. Consistent with previous work studying campaign spending in state legislative elections, I find a positive and significant association between campaign time and vote percentage for challengers—but not incumbents—in incumbent‐contested elections.
The Power of an Hour: Effects of Candidate Time Expenditure in State Legislative Elections
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 327-359
ISSN: 0362-9805
Going all-in: gender and campaign commitment
In: Research & politics: R&P, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 205316801560510
ISSN: 2053-1680
Recent evidence suggests that women overcome the potential negative impact of gender stereotypes by emerging when they are stronger candidates than men. I leverage an original survey of state legislative candidates to determine whether women devote more time to their campaigns. I find that women on the whole, and those who had previously been elected to a political office in particular, invested more of their personal time into the campaign than men. This difference is driven by the fact that women are more likely to forgo employment during the election. These findings suggest that women are more likely than men to arrange their personal obligations in such a fashion that they can run stronger campaigns.
Clean Elections at the Supreme Court
In: Subsidizing Democracy, S. 124-141
Ideology and Partisan Participation
In: Subsidizing Democracy, S. 108-123
Strategic Candidates and Public Funding
In: Subsidizing Democracy, S. 29-45