Lionel Marquis
Biographic Data
| ID | 940884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lionel Marquis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lionel |
| FAMILY NAME | Marquis |
| SIGNATURE | MARQUIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4105-8017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Poverty Attributions and Voting Choices in the 2023 Swiss National Elections
Is poverty a relevant issue for Swiss electoral politics and political behavior? In this paper we answer that question by showing that citizens’ agreement with different causal attributions of poverty matters for their voting decisions. Of highest relevance is the difference between an “individual blame” explanation (i.e., the poor are lazy) and a “social blame” explanation (i.e., poverty arises from social injustice), which has various consequen…
Causal attributions of poverty
This study investigates the causal attributions of poverty among Swiss citizens using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel (2019-2021). Agreement with the following four explanations of poverty was measured: "the poor are lazy" (individual blame), "the poor are unlucky" (individual fate), "the poor are victims of social injustice" (social blame) and "poverty is an inevitable consequence of the modern world" (social fate). Social blame…
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–2023
This study explores whether ideological polarization increases political engagement and trust, both of which are central elements of civic culture. Polarization can clarify political positions and thereby simplify the formation of opinions, increase the stakes of elections, and offer more options to citizens. To estimate the impact of polarization from a causal perspective, we exploit variation within individuals over time using individual-level …
Explaining the (In)Stability of Voters’ Issue Ownership Perceptions
Recent research demonstrates that voters who change their perceptions of parties’ reputation on specific issues (issue ownership) are also more likely to change their party choice accordingly. This article deals with the sources of such instability, with an emphasis on the accessibility of voters’ perceptions as measured by survey response times. We contend that more accessible perceptions are more stable, but that this stabilizing effect decreas…
Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis
We explore period, cohort and age effects on political engagement of Swiss residents from 1999 to 2020. A particular focus lies on the impact of the successive crises democratic societies have faced in recent years, such as the economic and debt crisis, refugee crisis, climate change, terrorist attacks or COVID-19 pandemic. We review the literature on the potential of such large-scale external events for both politicization and depoliticization. …
The Accessibility and Electoral Consequences of Issue Competence Perceptions
According to the issue ownership theory of voting, voters cast their ballot for the party that they consider to be most competent and most committed to handle an issue of importance to them. This article offers a theoretical expansion of this model, arguing that the effect of issue ownership on vote choice is conditioned by the accessibility of voters' ownership perceptions, as measured by response latencies. Through individual‐level analyses of …
When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences
Individuals hold beliefs about what causes poverty, and those beliefs have been theorized to explain policy preferences and ultimately cross-country variations in welfare states. However, there has been little empirical work on the effects of poverty attributions on welfare state attitudes. We seek to fill this gap by making use of Eurobarometer data from 27 European countries in the years 2009, 2010 and 2014 to explore the effects of poverty att…
The Psychology of Quick and Slow Answers
Attitude importance is a key variable in most models seeking to explain evaluations of political parties and leaders. Unlike attitudes on less central issues, attitudes about aspects of politics which citizens deem personally important are expected to influence their political judgments. In this article, we propose to conceptualize the importance of attitudes as their accessibility in memory and measure it by the time survey respondents take to a…
The Fairness of Media Coverage in Question
The mass media are assigned an important role in political campaigns on popular votes. This article asks how the press communicates political issues to citizens during referendum campaigns, and whether some minimal criteria for successful public deliberation are met. The press coverage of all 24 ballot votes on welfare state issues from 1995 to 2004 in Switzerland is examined, distinguishing seven criteria to judge how news coverage compares to i…
Understanding Political Knowledge and its Influence on Voting Preferences in the 2007 Federal Election
In this article we propose a model to explain how voters’ perceptions of their ideological proximity to a party affect their propensity to vote for that party. We argue that political knowledge plays a crucial moderating role in the relationship between party proximity and voting propensity. It is necessary, however, to distinguish between institutional knowledge (information about the political system) and party knowledge (information about the …
Development and Consequences of Referendum Campaigns in Switzerland, 1981‐1999
Since the early 1990s, new forms of referendum campaigns have emerged in the Swiss political arena. In this paper, we examine how referendum campaigns have transformed in Switzerland, focusing on a number of features: their intensity, duration and inclusiveness (i.e., the variety of actors involved). These features are assumed to change in the long run in response to societal changes and in the short run as a function of variations in elite suppo…
Moderators of Priming Effects
This article proposes an extended model of how “media priming effects” come about, distinguishing between several mediators and moderators of priming. The model is tested using data from an experiment on Swiss foreign policy in which undergraduate students were provided with different types of biased information about the relationships between Switzerland and the European Union. The empirical analysis suggests that cross-sectional and cross-tempo…
Campaigning in a Direct Democracy
This research note focuses on Switzerland's relationship with the EU, and the role direct democracy plays in this relationship. Specifically, the research question asked is whether behaviour on the part of the campaigners can be understood through the lens of Riker's so-called dominance principle: “when one side successfully wins the argument on an issue, the other side ceases to discuss it” (Riker 1993: 81). One corollary of the dominance princi…
Opinion Publique et Politique Extérieure
Opinion formation in foreign policy
Wer kommt als Vermittler zum Zuge?Überschätzte und unterschätzte Anforderungsfaktoren für Mediationstätigkeiten
In der quantitativ orientierten Konfliktforschung wurde bis jetzt vorab untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen Vermittlungsaktionen von Erfolg gekrönt sind. In diesem Aufsatz gehen wir hingegen den Kriterien nach, unter denen ein Staat überhaupt ein Mediationsmandat erhält. Aus schweizerischer Perspektive besonders interessant ist, dass neutrale Staaten unterdurchschnittlich häufig angefragt werden und, falls sie überhaupt einmal zu Zug kommen, au…
Opinion formation in foreign policy
The Fairness of Media Coverage in Question
The mass media are assigned an important role in political campaigns on popular votes. This article asks how the press communicates political issues to citizens during referendum campaigns, and whether some minimal criteria for successful public deliberation are met. The press coverage of all 24 ballot votes on welfare state issues from 1995 to 2004 in Switzerland is examined, distinguishing seven criteria to judge how news coverage compares to i…
Understanding Political Knowledge and its Influence on Voting Preferences in the 2007 Federal Election
In this article we propose a model to explain how voters’ perceptions of their ideological proximity to a party affect their propensity to vote for that party. We argue that political knowledge plays a crucial moderating role in the relationship between party proximity and voting propensity. It is necessary, however, to distinguish between institutional knowledge (information about the political system) and party knowledge (information about the …
Opinion Publique et Politique Extérieure
The Accessibility and Electoral Consequences of Issue Competence Perceptions
According to the issue ownership theory of voting, voters cast their ballot for the party that they consider to be most competent and most committed to handle an issue of importance to them. This article offers a theoretical expansion of this model, arguing that the effect of issue ownership on vote choice is conditioned by the accessibility of voters' ownership perceptions, as measured by response latencies. Through individual‐level analyses of …
When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences
Individuals hold beliefs about what causes poverty, and those beliefs have been theorized to explain policy preferences and ultimately cross-country variations in welfare states. However, there has been little empirical work on the effects of poverty attributions on welfare state attitudes. We seek to fill this gap by making use of Eurobarometer data from 27 European countries in the years 2009, 2010 and 2014 to explore the effects of poverty att…
Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis
We explore period, cohort and age effects on political engagement of Swiss residents from 1999 to 2020. A particular focus lies on the impact of the successive crises democratic societies have faced in recent years, such as the economic and debt crisis, refugee crisis, climate change, terrorist attacks or COVID-19 pandemic. We review the literature on the potential of such large-scale external events for both politicization and depoliticization. …
Development and Consequences of Referendum Campaigns in Switzerland, 1981‐1999
Since the early 1990s, new forms of referendum campaigns have emerged in the Swiss political arena. In this paper, we examine how referendum campaigns have transformed in Switzerland, focusing on a number of features: their intensity, duration and inclusiveness (i.e., the variety of actors involved). These features are assumed to change in the long run in response to societal changes and in the short run as a function of variations in elite suppo…
Campaigning in a Direct Democracy
This research note focuses on Switzerland's relationship with the EU, and the role direct democracy plays in this relationship. Specifically, the research question asked is whether behaviour on the part of the campaigners can be understood through the lens of Riker's so-called dominance principle: “when one side successfully wins the argument on an issue, the other side ceases to discuss it” (Riker 1993: 81). One corollary of the dominance princi…
Wer kommt als Vermittler zum Zuge?Überschätzte und unterschätzte Anforderungsfaktoren für Mediationstätigkeiten
In der quantitativ orientierten Konfliktforschung wurde bis jetzt vorab untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen Vermittlungsaktionen von Erfolg gekrönt sind. In diesem Aufsatz gehen wir hingegen den Kriterien nach, unter denen ein Staat überhaupt ein Mediationsmandat erhält. Aus schweizerischer Perspektive besonders interessant ist, dass neutrale Staaten unterdurchschnittlich häufig angefragt werden und, falls sie überhaupt einmal zu Zug kommen, au…
Opinion formation in foreign policy
Opinion Publique et Politique Extérieure
Campaigning in a Direct Democracy
This research note focuses on Switzerland's relationship with the EU, and the role direct democracy plays in this relationship. Specifically, the research question asked is whether behaviour on the part of the campaigners can be understood through the lens of Riker's so-called dominance principle: “when one side successfully wins the argument on an issue, the other side ceases to discuss it” (Riker 1993: 81). One corollary of the dominance princi…
Moderators of Priming Effects
This article proposes an extended model of how “media priming effects” come about, distinguishing between several mediators and moderators of priming. The model is tested using data from an experiment on Swiss foreign policy in which undergraduate students were provided with different types of biased information about the relationships between Switzerland and the European Union. The empirical analysis suggests that cross-sectional and cross-tempo…
Development and Consequences of Referendum Campaigns in Switzerland, 1981‐1999
Since the early 1990s, new forms of referendum campaigns have emerged in the Swiss political arena. In this paper, we examine how referendum campaigns have transformed in Switzerland, focusing on a number of features: their intensity, duration and inclusiveness (i.e., the variety of actors involved). These features are assumed to change in the long run in response to societal changes and in the short run as a function of variations in elite suppo…
Understanding Political Knowledge and its Influence on Voting Preferences in the 2007 Federal Election
In this article we propose a model to explain how voters’ perceptions of their ideological proximity to a party affect their propensity to vote for that party. We argue that political knowledge plays a crucial moderating role in the relationship between party proximity and voting propensity. It is necessary, however, to distinguish between institutional knowledge (information about the political system) and party knowledge (information about the …
The Fairness of Media Coverage in Question
The mass media are assigned an important role in political campaigns on popular votes. This article asks how the press communicates political issues to citizens during referendum campaigns, and whether some minimal criteria for successful public deliberation are met. The press coverage of all 24 ballot votes on welfare state issues from 1995 to 2004 in Switzerland is examined, distinguishing seven criteria to judge how news coverage compares to i…
The Psychology of Quick and Slow Answers
Attitude importance is a key variable in most models seeking to explain evaluations of political parties and leaders. Unlike attitudes on less central issues, attitudes about aspects of politics which citizens deem personally important are expected to influence their political judgments. In this article, we propose to conceptualize the importance of attitudes as their accessibility in memory and measure it by the time survey respondents take to a…
When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences
Individuals hold beliefs about what causes poverty, and those beliefs have been theorized to explain policy preferences and ultimately cross-country variations in welfare states. However, there has been little empirical work on the effects of poverty attributions on welfare state attitudes. We seek to fill this gap by making use of Eurobarometer data from 27 European countries in the years 2009, 2010 and 2014 to explore the effects of poverty att…
Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis
We explore period, cohort and age effects on political engagement of Swiss residents from 1999 to 2020. A particular focus lies on the impact of the successive crises democratic societies have faced in recent years, such as the economic and debt crisis, refugee crisis, climate change, terrorist attacks or COVID-19 pandemic. We review the literature on the potential of such large-scale external events for both politicization and depoliticization. …
The Accessibility and Electoral Consequences of Issue Competence Perceptions
According to the issue ownership theory of voting, voters cast their ballot for the party that they consider to be most competent and most committed to handle an issue of importance to them. This article offers a theoretical expansion of this model, arguing that the effect of issue ownership on vote choice is conditioned by the accessibility of voters' ownership perceptions, as measured by response latencies. Through individual‐level analyses of …
Causal attributions of poverty
This study investigates the causal attributions of poverty among Swiss citizens using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel (2019-2021). Agreement with the following four explanations of poverty was measured: "the poor are lazy" (individual blame), "the poor are unlucky" (individual fate), "the poor are victims of social injustice" (social blame) and "poverty is an inevitable consequence of the modern world" (social fate). Social blame…
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–2023
This study explores whether ideological polarization increases political engagement and trust, both of which are central elements of civic culture. Polarization can clarify political positions and thereby simplify the formation of opinions, increase the stakes of elections, and offer more options to citizens. To estimate the impact of polarization from a causal perspective, we exploit variation within individuals over time using individual-level …
Explaining the (In)Stability of Voters’ Issue Ownership Perceptions
Recent research demonstrates that voters who change their perceptions of parties’ reputation on specific issues (issue ownership) are also more likely to change their party choice accordingly. This article deals with the sources of such instability, with an emphasis on the accessibility of voters’ perceptions as measured by survey response times. We contend that more accessible perceptions are more stable, but that this stabilizing effect decreas…
Poverty Attributions and Voting Choices in the 2023 Swiss National Elections
Is poverty a relevant issue for Swiss electoral politics and political behavior? In this paper we answer that question by showing that citizens’ agreement with different causal attributions of poverty matters for their voting decisions. Of highest relevance is the difference between an “individual blame” explanation (i.e., the poor are lazy) and a “social blame” explanation (i.e., poverty arises from social injustice), which has various consequen…
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