Party competition and emotive rhetoric

When do parties use emotive rhetoric to appeal to voters? In this article, we argue that politicians are more likely to employ positive affect (valence) in their rhetoric to appeal to voters when parties are not ideologically distinct and when there is uncertainty about public preferences. To test t...

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Hlavní autoři: Kosmidis, S, Hobolt, S, Molloy, A, Whitefield, S
Médium: Journal article
Vydáno: SAGE Publications 2018