Author: Tabitha Bonilla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108910378
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Campaign promises are a cornerstone of representative democracy. Candidates make promises to signal to voters their intentions in office and voters evaluate candidates based on those promises. This study unpacks the theorized pathway regarding campaign promises: not whether promises are kept, but what purpose promises serve, what they signal, and how they affect voter decision-making. The author explores the pathways and conditions influencing promises and finds that promises tend to have a polarizing effect on voters' opinions of politicians, attracting similarly-positioned voters and strongly repelling voters who disagree with a candidate's position. In addition, voters perceive promise breakers as less honest and less likely to follow through than candidates who more weakly took the same position. With a wealth of data and fascinating case studies, this book is full of important insights into electoral psychology and the study of promises, campaigning, and representation.
Author: Tabitha Bonilla Worsley
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Languages : en
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How does a candidate's rhetoric affect a voter's understanding of the candidate's position? Campaign promises, specifically, seem like they would affect voter opinion differently than position statements made without a promise. This dissertation develops a theory of how promises affect voter opinions of candidates with regard to non-promise position statements. Specifically, I argue that promises serve as commitments to voters of an action the candidate will take on a specific issue when in office. By increasing their perceived commitment to an issue, promises alter voter opinions both prospectively and retrospectively. Through a descriptive study of promise-making throughout the televised, presidential election debates, I show that there is a distinction between promises and non-promise position-taking in actual campaigns. I then present data from several survey experiments that demonstrate that promises have an impact on voter evaluations of candidates, and how they affect voter opinions. Ultimately, this dissertation points to the importance of understanding political rhetoric in position-taking.
Author: E. Naurin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230319300
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election promises, citizens hold the opposite view. This 'Pledge Puzzle' guides Naurin in her analysis of the often referred to but not empirically investigated, 'conventional wisdom' about election promises.
Author: Mascha Rauschenbach
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jonathan Mellon
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Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Parties make hundreds of campaign promises but not all are equally important to voters. Studies of government promise fulfilment accept that some promises matter more than others, but treat all promises equally because they lack an appropriate means of assigning promise centrality. To address this limitation, we propose a method that uses a conjoint experiment design to measure public option about promise importance which can be used to construct centrality weights. We demonstrate the utility of this approach by examining the 2017 UK conservative manifesto. Centrality weighting reduces our assessment of Conservative promise-keeping by 21 percentage points (2 SD of typical promise completion rates). Weighting increases the importance of EU promises sevenfold, immigration promises fivefold, and reduces the centrality of miscellaneous administrative promises more than half. These results illustrate that pledge centrality cannot be ignored when assessing pledge fulfillment.
Author: Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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A media expert and network commentator examines the welter of misinformation--generated by politicians and the media alike--that surrounds political campaigns.
Author: Jimmy Carter
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Author: Thad Dunning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108395074
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
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Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these informational deficits are numerous. Yet do informational campaigns influence voter behavior and increase democratic accountability? Through the first project of the Metaketa Initiative, sponsored by the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) research network, this book aims to address this substantive question and at the same time introduce a new model for cumulative learning that increases coordination among otherwise independent researcher teams. It presents the overall results (using meta-analysis) from six independently conducted but coordinated field experimental studies, the results from each individual study, and the findings from a related evaluation of whether practitioners utilize this information as expected. It also discusses lessons learned from EGAP's efforts to coordinate field experiments, increase replication of theoretically important studies across contexts, and increase the external validity of field experimental research.
Author: Collectif Collectif
Publisher: Presses de l'Université Laval
ISBN: 2763744443
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Twenty renowned academics investigate the fate of the 353 liberal campaign promises. Foreword by Thomas Mulcair.
Author: Elizabeth Warren
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250860938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Polly knows she's strong and capable. But whenever she offers to help her uncle or brother or neighbor, they tell her: "That's not what girls do." Then one day, Polly goes to a rally to meet a woman who's running for president, and they make a pinkie promise to remember all the things that girls do. Polly carries that promise with her at school, onto the soccer field, and even into an election for Class President! This inspiring story will encourage young readers to dream big. Godwin Books
