Do Issues Still Matter? Examining the Effects of Candidate Positioning on Partisan Voting

• In Event: Issues, Valence, and the Spatial Model of Vote Choice

Brief Overview

This survey experiment examines the extent to which issue disagreement can induce partisans to defect from their party’s candidate. We find that partisanship usually dominates, but that substantial issue disagreements can sometimes overcome party ID.

Authors

• Brett Parker, Stanford University

• Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University

• David W. Brady, Stanford University