Expressive voting with booing and cheering: Evidence from Britain

Javier Rivas Ruiz; James Rockey

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101956

Expressive voting with booing and cheering: Evidence from Britain

Javier Rivas Ruiz, James Rockey

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Previous work on Expressive Voting has focused on the desire of voters to express what they are for and thus who they are. But, often also as important, is the desire of voters to express what they are against, and who they are not. In this paper we extend the standard formulation of Expressive Voting to account for this possibility. Using data for the UK we find empirical evidence that the desire to boo has been increasingly important at recent elections. The implications of this for recent trends in political polarization are discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	101956
Journal	European Journal of Political Economy
Volume	67
Early online date	28 Nov 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101956
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2021

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British politics
Expressive voting
Polarization

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Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations

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