Proximity and directional voting: Testing for the region of acceptability |
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| Affiliation: | 1. ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE, Spain;2. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE, Spain;3. University of Michigan, United States;1. University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom;2. Kings College London, London, United Kingdom;1. School of Politics and IR, Law and Social Sciences Building, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK;2. Department of Government, Rathausstraße 19/1/9, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria;1. Old Dominion University Department of Political Science and Geography 7000 Batten Arts and Letters Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA;2. Kansas State University Department of Political Science 019C Calvin Hall 101 Mid Campus Drive South, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA;1. Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties, Groningen University, Broerstraat 4, Groningen, The Netherlands;2. Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, 3 College Green, Dublin, Ireland |
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| Abstract: | Although countless articles examined proximity and directional voting, little attention has been paid to a central concept of directional theory – the region of acceptability (ROA) – and very few empirical tests of the concept have been conducted. We remedy this gap and focus in this study on the ROA and the individual nature of the penalty imposed. Relying on original data collected in a survey in Switzerland (N = 2000) and an experimental design manipulating the positions of the fictional candidates, we find clear evidence for the existence of the ROA. Our findings also support the idea that the ROA is an individual-level concept, as variables like political extremism and interest in politics have an influence on the effect of the ROA. |
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