Does Policy Attribution Influence Candidate Choice? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments in Ghana and India

• In Event: Political Participation and Party Strategies in the Developing World

Brief Overview

Does policy attribution influence candidate choice? Contrary to expectations of accountability models, results from conjoint experiments run in Ghana and India provide at best only weak evidence to suggest that attribution affects candidate choice.

Authors

• Robin Harding, University of Oxford

• Tanushree Goyal, Nuffield College, University of Oxford