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Party and Incumbency Cues in Voting: Are They Substitutes?

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  • Ansolabehere, Stephen
  • Hirano, Shigeo
  • Snyder, James M.
  • Ueda, Michiko

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A possible explanation for the rise of the incumbency advantage in U.S. elections asserts that party and incumbency are close informational substitutes. A common claim in the literature is that, as the salience of partisan cues decreased, voters attached themselves to the next available piece of information – incumbency. Minnesota state legislative elections provide a unique setting for testing this idea. These elections switched from using non-partisan to partisan ballots and primaries in 1973. We find that, after the switch to partisan elections, party voting increased substantially. However, contrary to expectations, the incumbency advantage also increased. These patterns suggest that party and incumbency are not close substitutes for large numbers of voters, and that cue-substitution cannot explain the rise of the incumbency advantage.

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  • Ansolabehere, Stephen & Hirano, Shigeo & Snyder, James M. & Ueda, Michiko, 2006. "Party and Incumbency Cues in Voting: Are They Substitutes?," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 1(2), pages 119-137, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jlqjps:100.00000008
    DOI: 10.1561/100.00000008
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    1. Aditi Singhal, 2016. "Strength of Partisan and Candidate Ties in India," Working papers 266, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
    2. Shigeo Hirano & James M. Snyder, Jr., 2009. "Using Multimember District Elections to Estimate the Sources of the Incumbency Advantage," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 53(2), pages 292-306, April.
    3. Loreto Cox & Sylvia Eyzaguirre & Francisco Gallego & Maximiliano García, 2020. "Punishing Mayors Who Fail the Test: How do Voters Respond to Information on Educational Outcomes?," Documentos de Trabajo 555, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile..
    4. Aditi Singhal, 2016. "Strength of Partisan and Candidate Ties in India," Working Papers id:11504, eSocialSciences.

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