Elections, Voting, Technology

Garzia, Diego; Ferreira da Silva, Frederico

Why do some people conceive their vote choices as mostly against, rather than for a given party/candidate? Who are these negative voters? What macro-level conditions favor the development of negative voting? This volume provides answers to these questions through the first comparative assessment of negative voting in contemporary democracies. It presents a composite theoretical framework for the analysis of negative voting and tests it extensively on originally collected survey data from Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Examining negative voting as a possible behavioral consequence of affective polarization and negative partisanship, this study sheds light on the electoral implications of increasingly antagonistic attitudes among the electorate.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-10-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031512070

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51208-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 90