Reassessing the Effect of Candidate Extremism on Vote Choice and Turnout

• In Event: Voters' Electoral Behavior

Brief Overview

In this work, we aim to retest the candidate extremist penalty. Using both experimental and observational data, we find that there is no real effect of candidate extremism, for either an in-party or out-party candidate.

Authors

• Austin Cutler, Florida State University

• Hans J.G. Hassell, Florida State University

• Kevin Reuning, Miami University