Emotions, Political Attitudes and Referendum

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The panel gathers paper focusing on emotions, political attitudes and referendum. A first paper studies the effect of referendum on political attitudes towards democracy. It tests a key issue related to the ongoing debate about how to cope with the demcratic distrust: whether citizens like referendum as a process per se or as a mean to reach their policy goal. The second paper analyses risk-taking attitudes and referendums. It introduced a new type of risk - political risk - to understand electoral behavior in independence referendums. In a related way, the third paper investigates how emotions shape electoral behavior in independence referendum. As independence is a salient issue that very often triggers strong feelings the paper empirically assess the extent to which three types of emotions matter.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Association Française de Science Politique

Chair

• Eric Kerrouche Sciences Po, Bordeaux

Discussant

• Martial Foucault Sciences Po Paris

Individual Presentations

• Referendums and Voters’ Consent to Democracy: An Experimental Approach - Michael Becher, IE University; Sylvain Brouard, Sciences Po

• Propensity to Political Risk and Voting Behavior in Independence Referendum - Richard Nadeau, University of Montreal; Martial Foucault, Sciences Po Paris; Sylvain Brouard, Sciences Po

• Emotions and Voting in Referendum: The 2018 New Caledonian Referendum - Pavlos Vasilopoulos, CEVIPOF; Eric Kerrouche, Sciences Po, Bordeaux