Must Liberals Always Vote for Liberals and Need the More Competent Candidate Always Be Preferred?

Amihai Glazer and Bernard Grofman

British Journal of Political Science, 1989, vol. 19, issue 1, 154-159

Abstract: Anthony Downs's model of voter choice is customarily interpreted to mean that each voter chooses the candidate whose positions are closest to the voter's. Actually, however, this is too simple a picture of Downs's views. Downs anticipated ideas of prospective and performance-based retrospective voting. He recognized that voters evaluate candidates in terms of their past performances and expectations about future performance, and may discount issue proximity to a candidate if the candidate is not expected to be able to live up to his campaign promises on the issue in question.

Date: 1989
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