How Voter Perceptions of Party Leaders and Ideology Influence Voting for Smaller Parties: Examining a threshold effect using quantitative textual analysis

• In Event: Volatile Voters

Brief Overview

Performing a statistical semantic analysis, this paper develops the argument that voter perceptions of leaders and issues interact in the tendency of casting a vote for a party at risk of falling below an electoral threshold.

Authors

• Annika Fredén, Karlstad University

• Sverker Sikström, Department of psychology