The impact of ideological positions and personal attributes of candidates in intraparty competition: A study under the Swiss open-list PR System
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2022Referencia bibliográfica
Swiss Political Sci. Rev. 2023;29:161–180
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ANDALUSIA ERDF 2014-2020, Grant/Award Number: B-SEJ-508-UGR18Resumen
Intraparty preference voting systems offer different incentives
for candidates to cultivate a personal vote, but little is known
about how the candidates' policy positions affect their electoral
success in intraparty competition. This article analyses
the effect of candidates' ideological positions and personal
attributes on their preference vote share in the 2015 and 2019
Swiss Lower House elections. We used candidate survey data
combined with official election statistics. Our findings demonstrate
that the ideological distance between candidates' positions
and their party's median position is of minor importance
for their electoral success when compared to their personal
attributes. However, ideological distance between candidates
and their party's median position reduce their preference vote
share.