Journal article
Voter reactions to incumbent opportunism
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Opportunistic incumbent behavior to gain electoral advantage flies in the face of democratic accountability and should elicit voter disapproval. Yet incumbents routinely behave opportunistically. This observation is puzzling. We address this puzzle by offering the first systematic, individual-level analysis of voter reactions to opportunism. We combine four original surveys with embedded experiments and focus on a common form of opportunism in parliamentary systems—opportunistic election timi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1086/698758
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- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Politics Journal website
- Volume:
- 80
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1183-1196
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-12
- DOI:
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1468-2508
- ISSN:
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0022-3816
- Source identifiers:
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738014
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- pubs:738014
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Southern Political Science Association
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 by the Southern Political Science Association.
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