Politicians' Theories of Voting Behavior
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=L5H.sBcvqR" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=L5H.sBcvqR</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424001060" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0003055424001060</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Politicians' Theories of Voting Behavior
Original language description
While political scientists regularly engage in spirited theoretical debates about elections and voting behavior, few have noticed that elected politicians also have theories of elections and voting. Here, we investigate politicians' positions on eight central theoretical debates in the area of elections and voting behavior and compare politicians' theories to those held by ordinary citizens. Using data from face-to-face interviews with nearly one thousand politicians in 11 countries, together with corresponding surveys of more than twelve thousand citizens, we show that politicians overwhelmingly hold thin, minimalist, "democratic realist" theories of voting, while citizens' theories are more optimistic and policy oriented. Politicians' theoretical tendencies-along with their theoretical misalignment from citizens-are remarkably consistent across countries. These theories are likely to have important consequences for how politicians campaign, communicate with the public, think about public policy, and represent their constituents.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The American Political Science Review
ISSN
0003-0554
e-ISSN
1537-5943
Volume of the periodical
119
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1304-1321
UT code for WoS article
001347144800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85209686896