Changes in the U.S. partisan balance over the past decade are often attributed
to the enhanced political salience of cultural issues. Yet as white men have
continued to become more Republican in recent years, white women increasingly
identify with the Democrats. To the extent that cultural issues are influencing
this partisan change, men and women must be responding differently to this
cultural ag... hiện toàn bộ
Many spatial models of voting suggest that citizens are more likely to abstain
when they feel indifferent toward the candidates or alienated from them. In
presidential elections, previous research offers evidence that alienation and
indifference affect individuals' probabilities of voting. We find evidence that
indifference and alienation also affect the decision to vote in midterm Senate
election... hiện toàn bộ
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Costas Panagopoulos
We examine whether Big Five personality traits are associated with heterogeneous
responses to commonly used Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) appeals in both a survey and
a field experiment. The results suggest that Big Five personality traits affect
how people respond to the costs and benefits of voting highlighted in GOTV
appeals. Our evidence also suggests that one trait—Openness—is associated with
broad... hiện toàn bộ