Primary Distrust
Political Distrust and Support for the Insurgent Candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Primary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6097285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua J Dyck (0000-0001-5625-0744, University of Massachusetts Lowell), Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz (0000-0001-6440-1098, University of Rhode Island), Michael Coates, Michael J Coates (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 02 |
| Pages | 351-357 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096517002505 |
| OpenAlex | W2796467556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 9 |
Donald Trump dominated the 2016 Republican primary despite the fact that he was not, in any meaningful sense, a Republican. Bernie Sanders came just shy of winning the Democratic nomination despite the fact that he switched his party affiliation from Independent to Democrat only three months before the election. Why did two candidates with no formal ties to the political parties fare so well? One possibility is that primary voters are more ideologically extreme and that ideology drives support for these candidates. However, another possibility is that concerns about government process drives support for insurgent candidates. We test the proposition that distrust was the primary motivator of primary voting for these two insurgent candidates using two datasets: a poll of New Hampshire voters fielded a week before their primary and a national poll taken in June 2016. Results confirm the hypothesis that distrust drove intraparty vote choice in the 2016 presidential primaries
Democracy · Distrust · Ideology · Nomination · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Primary election · Sociology · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |