Presidential Debates and Electoral Preferences in Weakly Institutionalised Democracies: Evidence From 32 Latin American Elections

Previous research has shown that presidential debates have “minimal effects” on aggregate electoral preferences because they mainly reinforce people's pre-existing political preferences. However, most of what we know about the behavioural effects of debates comes from research conducted in the...

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Main Authors: Francisco Cantú, Miguel Carreras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of Politics in Latin America
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X231213668