Journal article
Making policies matter: voter responses to campaign promises
- Abstract:
- Can voters in clientelist countries be swayed by programmatic promises? Results from a structural model and a field experiment disseminating candidate policy platforms in Philippine mayoral elections indicate that they can. Voters who received information about candidate policy promises were more likely to vote for candidates who were closer to their own preferences. Voters who were informed about incumbent candidates’ past commitments were more likely to vote for incumbents who fulfilled them. The structural model uncovers mechanisms. Information about campaign promises increases policies’ salience relative to other voter concerns; it also affects voter beliefs about candidate quality and candidates’ platforms.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Authors
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- The Economic Journal More from this journal
- Volume:
- 134
- Issue:
- 661
- Pages:
- 1875–1913
- Publication date:
- 2024-01-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-01-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-0297
- ISSN:
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0013-0133
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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1532714
- Local pid:
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pubs:1532714
- Deposit date:
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2023-09-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Cruz et al
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Economic Society. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)
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