A Party Like Me: How Social Identities Drive Voters’ Evaluations of Political Parties

• In Event: Voters and Parties in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

In this paper, we argue that controlling for citizen-party policy agreement, citizens will tend to support and to positively evaluate parties that make explicit appeals to those groups that match the citizen’s demographic characteristics.

Authors

• Timea Balogh, University of California-Davis

• James Adams, University of California-Davis