Whose Party is It
Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6179880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Sievert (0000-0002-7937-7024, Texas Tech University, corresponding author), Victor J Hinojosa (0000-0003-1938-4211, Texas Tech University), Victor Hinojosa |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 539-544 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Politics Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-673X • E-ISSN: 1552-3373 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532673x221076435 |
| OpenAlex | W4212786155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 14 |
Presidents and presidential candidates serve as an important source cue for the mass public’s attitudes toward and evaluations of the political parties. Our study evaluates these dynamics during the transition from a lame duck president, Barack Obama, to a new party standard-bearer, Hillary Clinton. Our analysis takes advantage of the fact that the 2014 and 2016 Cooperative Election Study (CES) and the 2012 and 2016 American National Election Study (ANES) surveys asked respondents to evaluate both Obama, Clinton, and the Democratic Party. These data allow us to examine whether the transition from Obama to Clinton changed the primary referent for public attitudes toward the Democratic Party. Our results provide mixed evidence about a change in the relative importance of attitudes toward Clinton and Obama when the former became the nominee, and the latter was a lame duck. While the public’s view of the connection between Obama and Democratic Party’s ideological profile remained constant across time, respondents did update their affective assessments of the party in the face of a new party leader once Clinton was the nominee
Communism · Democracy · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Presidential election · Presidential system · Primary election · Realigning election · Socialism · Sociology · Split-ticket voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics
Succession effects in presidential elections
The President's Influence on Congressional Candidate Evaluations
How National Cues Polarize Perceptions of Political Figures
Who Gets Blamed When Congress and the President Collide
Assessing Trump's presidential endorsements while in and out of office (2018-2022)
Identity Crisis
Post-Racial or Most-Racial
A Uniter and a Divider
Traiting Places
Nationalization in U.S. Senate and Gubernatorial Elections
The Growing Influence of Gender Attitudes on Public Support for Hillary Clinton, 2008–2012
The Macro-dynamics of Partisan Advantage
Motivated Reasoning, Public Opinion, and Presidential Approval
The Dynamic Character of Political Party Evaluations
Polarizing Cues
Arguing for a Negligible Effect
Emotions and Affective Polarization
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |