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Negative Voting in Comparative Perspective

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  • May 2024

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Authors:
  1. Diego Garzia

    1. Political Science, University o fLausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. Frederico Ferreira da Silva

    1. Political Science, Univeristy of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • the first comparative account of negative voting in Western democracies to date
  • Advances a theoretical model of negative voting
  • Offers evidence that negative voting is linked to voters’ (affectively polarized) evaluations of candidates

Part of the book series: Elections, Voting, Technology (EVT)

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Keywords

  • negative voting
  • affective polarization
  • comparative politics
  • empirical democratic theory
  • elections
  • voting
  • incumbency
  • partisanship
  • affective polarization

About this book

Why do some people conceive their vote choices as mostly against, rather than for a given party/candidate? Who are these negative voters? What macro-level conditions favor the development of negative voting? This volume provides answers to these questions through the first comparative assessment of negative voting in contemporary democracies. It presents a composite theoretical framework for the analysis of negative voting and tests it extensively on originally collected survey data from Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Examining negative voting as a possible behavioral consequence of affective polarization and negative partisanship, this study sheds light on the electoral implications of increasingly antagonistic attitudes among the electorate.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Political Science, University o fLausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Diego Garzia

  • Political Science, Univeristy of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Frederico Ferreira da Silva

About the authors

Diego Garzia is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Lausanne, and also a recurring Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole. He currently serves as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian National Election Study (ITANES). With Palgrave Macmillan, he authored Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change in 2014.

Frederico Ferreira da Silva is a Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He received a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. His research on elections, public opinion and voting behavior has been published in numerous academic journals and monographs.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Negative Voting in Comparative Perspective

  • Authors: Diego Garzia, Frederico Ferreira da Silva

  • Series Title: Elections, Voting, Technology

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51207-0Due: 12 June 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51210-0Due: 12 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51208-7Due: 12 June 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7610

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7629

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 111

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

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