What Brings You to the Party? Voter Preferences on Parties Through Policy and Valence Dynamics

• In Event: Issues Versus Other Voter Considerations

Brief Overview

A conjoint survey experiment of party policy and valence attributes on voter preferences. We find voters have weak preferences regarding political parties, though they do prefer moderately sized parties with a mix of experienced and new candidates.

Authors

• Jordan Hashim Hamzawi, St Olaf College

• Gento Kato, Meiji University

• Masahisa Endo, Waseda University