Examining Brand Strength of Political Candidates: a Performance Premium Approach

Beth L. Fossen (), David A. Schweidel () and Michael Lewis ()
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Beth L. Fossen: Indiana University
David A. Schweidel: Emory University
Michael Lewis: Emory University

Customer Needs and Solutions, 2019, vol. 6, issue 3, No 5, 63-75

Abstract: Abstract Despite the growth of research on political marketing, fundamental questions concerning brand value of political candidates and its relationship with marketing mix activities remain unanswered. This research extends premium-based brand valuation methods to the political context by presenting a performance premium approach to assessing the strength of politicians’ brands and exploring the relationship between politician brand strength and political advertising. We develop a joint hierarchical Bayesian model of brand performance and marketing activity and estimate our model using data on the election performance and advertising expenditures of political candidates from US House of Representatives elections. Our findings suggest that politicians who possess a strong brand—those that perform better than expected given the partisan leanings of their districts, advertising spending, and other model controls—face a consequence for their brand strength in which political advertising by their opponents has a stronger negative impact on their performance compared to the effect of political advertising against politicians with weaker brands. We discuss the implications of our findings for political marketing.

Keywords: Political marketing; Brand strength; Advertising; Human brands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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