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Hager, Anselm, Hermle, Johannes, Hensel, Lukas and Roth, Christopher (2021) Does party competition affect political activism? The Journal of Politics, 83 (4). doi:10.1086/712140 ISSN 0022-3816.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/712140
Abstract
Does party competition affect political activism? This paper studies the decision of party supporters to join political campaigns. We present a framework that incorporates supporters’ instrumental and expressive motives and illustrates that party competition can either increase or decrease party activism. To distinguish between these competing predictions, we implemented a field experiment with a European party during a national election. In a seemingly unrelated party survey, we randomly assigned 1,417 party supporters to true information that the canvassing activity of the main competitor party was exceptionally high. Using unobtrusive, real-time data on party supporters’ canvassing behavior, we find that respondents exposed to the high-competition treatment are 30% less likely to go canvassing. To investigate the causal mechanism, we leverage additional survey evidence collected two months after the campaign. Consistent with affective accounts of political activism, we show that increased competition lowered party supporters’ political self-efficacy, which plausibly led them to remain inactive.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Journal of Politics | ||||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0022-3816 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 83 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/712140 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © 2022 The Southern Political Science Association. All rights reserved. Accepted for publication by The Journal of Politics on 26/06/2020 and published online by The Journal of Politics on 23/08/2021. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 July 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 October 2021 | ||||||||
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