Strategic Primary Voters & Quality Candidates: Evidence from U.S. Senate Primaries

• In Event: Parties and Voting Behavior

Brief Overview

Drawing on candidate conjoint experiments fielded prior to the 2024 elections, we test whether competitive state partisans place a greater emphasis on quality attributes and lesser emphasis on positioning attributes than safe state partisans.

Authors

• Carlos Andres Algara, Claremont Graduate University

• Byengseon Bae, Claremont Graduate University

• Isaac Hale, Occidental College