Incumbency effects and the strength of party preferences: Evidence from multiparty elections in the United Kingdom

Previous researchers have speculated that incumbency effects are larger when voters have weaker partisan preferences, but evidence for this relationship is surprisingly weak. We offer a fresh look at the question by examining the U.K.’s multiparty system. In general, the electoral value of incumbenc...

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Những tác giả chính: Eggers, A, Spirling, A
Định dạng: Journal article
Được phát hành: University of Chicago Press 2017