CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Bogdan, Alexandra |
|---|---|
| Title | The Anxious Partisan. A Test of Affective Intelligence Theory in Romania |
| Summary | In order to navigate the complicated world of electoral politics, individuals may make use of cognitive shortcuts. One such heuristic is partisanship. When it comes time to make a choice at the polls, voters will listen to their party identification in order to choose a candidate. Yet, for such attachments to develop, voters need time to familiarize themselves with the party system. Using panel data from the Romanian Presidential Election Study 2009, gathered before and after the Presidential Elections, I identify three groups of individuals: consistent partisans, who declare themselves close to the same party both times, inconsistent partisans, who switch between parties or between partisanship and independence, and nonpartisans, individuals who declare themselves as independents both times when asked. I go on to test the theory of Affective Intelligence and find that partisans who are made anxious by a candidate are less likely to rely on their party identification when making a vote choice, while anxiety does not appear to have any effect on nonpartisans. Interestingly, the model only applies to partisans of the main challenger’s party, and not for partisans of the incumbent’s party. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/bogdan_alexandra.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University