Congressional Job Performance & Negative Voting: The Influence of Congressional Job Approval on Voter Turnout & Majority Party Accountability

• In Event: Analytical Challenges in Legislative Elections

Brief Overview

I evaluate a model of negative voting positing that citizen evaluations of congressional job performance influences voter turnout and preference for majority party candidates using turnout-validated survey data and aggregate election data.

Author

• Carlos Andres Algara, University of Texas, El Paso