Direct and Indirect Effects of Emotions towards Party Leaders on Voting: Evidence from the 2018 Andalusian Regional Election

Ángel Cazorla Martín (), Carmen Ortega and Juan Montabes
Additional contact information
Ángel Cazorla Martín: Department of Political Science and Administration, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Carmen Ortega: Department of Political Science and Administration, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Juan Montabes: Department of Political Science and Administration, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Social Sciences, 2023, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: Party leaders are increasingly relevant to voters’ choices in parliamentary systems. However, most studies addressing the electoral impact of leaders have largely ignored voters’ emotional responses to party leaders. Additionally, little is known about the effect of party leaders in subnational or regional elections. Using data from a specific election survey, this article examines the effect of emotions towards party leaders on regional voting. It assesses whether emotional responses to party leaders not only have direct effects, but whether they also have indirect effects through partisanship on voting. We found evidence that emotions towards party leaders have both direct and indirect effects through partisanship on vote choice.

Keywords: leaders; emotions; partisanship; voting; regional elections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/10/568/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/10/568/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:10:p:568-:d:1257959

Access Statistics for this article

Social Sciences is currently edited by Ms. Yvonne Chu

More articles in Social Sciences from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().