Clarifying the Relationship between Political Engagement and the Swing Vote

• In Event: Campaigns and Evolving Voter Preferences

Brief Overview

A four-wave panel of the 2024 election shows that low-engagement voters split tickets more, hold less constrained policy views, and switch their votes more. Patterns are consistent with Zaller's Receive-Accept model.

Authors

• Niklas Haehn, University of California, San Diego

• Shiro Kuriwaki, Yale University