Does Ambivalence Matter? How Voters Perceive Ambivalent Party Positions

• In Event: Party Positions and Voter Perceptions

Brief Overview

Party supporters estimate their party’s ideology with its positions on issues salient to them when it presents ambivalent positions. Ambivalent party positions do not affect ideological proximity between political parties and their supporters.

Author

• Kyung-Joon Joon Han, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville