Do Voters Prefer Tough-on-Crime Politicians? Analyzing the Effects of Policy Positions in Prosecutorial Elections

• In Event: Law In Action: Practices and Problems of Lawyering and Judging

Brief Overview

This article studies the effect of prosecutors' policy platforms on voters' preference for prosecutors. I argue that policy information serves as one crucial cue; voters assign considerable weight to prosecutors' policy positions when available.

Author

• Yu-Hsien Sung, University of South Carolina-Columbia