Vice-Presidential Candidates and the Home State Advantage
Playing Second Banana at Home and on the Road
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert L Dudley, Ronald B Rapoport (0000-0001-5598-7373) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 537 |
| Publication date | 1989-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2111159 |
| OpenAlex | W2313264755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 1 |
Since the publication of Southern Politics, political scientists have been intrigued by the phenomenon of localism in voting patterns. To assess such friends and neighbors voting in presidential elections, Lewis-Beck and Rice (1983) devised a technique that takes into account both the electoral traditions of the state and the short-term effect of a particular election. This note extends the Lewis-Beck and Rice analysis to vice-presidential candidates. Such an extension seems particularly warranted since the vicepresidential candidate is one political nomination still made by party elites who can purposely take regional appeals into account. Despite a lack of empirical support, the notion that a vice-president must add balance to the ticket maintains a strong hold (Hinckley, 1985, p. 11). Moreover, although strategic considerations regarding the vicepresidential selection extend to candidate ideology, religion, and type of government experience, the dominant factor has been region. Between 1952 and 1980, for example, 15 of 16 major party tickets showed regional balance. But only six showed an ideological balance; five, a religious balance; and seven balanced candidate experience (legislative vs. executive) (Goldstein, 1982 p. 69). Similarly, between 1884 and 1984, only five of 52 major party nominations (Republicans in 1936 and 1976 and Democrats in 1900, 1908, and 1948) were not regionally balanced-and in four of these, the party with such a ticket lost. The perception of a home state advantage is also the reason that vice-presidential candidates have been so likely to come from electorally large states (Adkison, 1982, p. 334
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| Unique citing works | 33 |
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| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |