Ideology, Group Affinity and Electability: Assessing the Competing Preferences of Primary Election Voters

• In Event: Primaries and Caucuses

Brief Overview

We assess the competing factors driving primary election voting. Using a conjoint experiment, we find partisans base much of their nominating decisions on policy congruence, but also uncover evidence of factional voting conditional on electability.

Authors

• John Henderson, Yale University

• Stephen N Goggin, San Diego State University

• Logan Dancey, Wesleyan University

• Geoffrey Sheagley, University of Georgia

• Alexander George Theodoridis, University of California-Merced