Shifting Motivations: Inferring Valence from Policy

• In Event: Support for (Un)popular Leaders and Policies

Brief Overview

How can parties signal that they are motivated by and committed to policy and not by winning office? We theorize that voters may use policy shifts to infer this. Two experiments show that policy shifts strongly signal motivations and commitment.

Authors

• Love Aksel Aksel Christensen, Aarhus University

• Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez, University Carlos III of Madrid