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Hager, Anselm, Hermle, Johannes, Hensel, Lukas ORCID: 0000-0002-4962-2885 and Roth, Christopher (2021). Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism? J. Polit., 83 (4). S. 1681 - 1695. CHICAGO: UNIV CHICAGO PRESS. ISSN 1468-2508

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Abstract

Does party competition affect political activism? This paper studies the decision of party supporters to join political campaigns. We present a framework that incorporates supporters' instrumental and expressive motives and illustrates that party competition can either increase or decrease party activism. To distinguish between these competing predictions, we implemented a field experiment with a European party during a national election. In a seemingly unrelated party survey, we randomly assigned 1,417 party supporters to true information that the canvassing activity of the main competitor party was exceptionally high. Using unobtrusive, real-time data on party supporters' canvassing behavior, we find that respondents exposed to the high-competition treatment are 30% less likely to go canvassing. To investigate the causal mechanism, we leverage additional survey evidence collected two months after the campaign. Consistent with affective accounts of political activism, we show that increased competition lowered party supporters' political self-efficacy, which plausibly led them to remain inactive.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hager, Anselm UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hermle, Johannes UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hensel, Lukas UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4962-2885 UNSPECIFIED Roth, Christopher UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-594447
DOI:	10.1086/712140
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Polit.
Volume:	83
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 1681 - 1695
Date:	2021
Publisher:	UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
Place of Publication:	CHICAGO
ISSN:	1468-2508
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ELECTORAL COMPETITION; OPINION POLLS; VOTER TURNOUT; UNITED-STATES; ELECTION; CHOICE; PARTICIPATION; CONSEQUENCES; PARTISANSHIP; STRATEGIES Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/59444