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Attitudes to Leadership and Voting: Finding the Efficient Frontier
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
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Attitudes to Leadership and Voting: Finding the Efficient Frontier
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DAVIS, Brent; School of Politics and International Relations Australian National University |
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Election campaigns; Politimetric modelling; Data Envelopment Analysis; Voter behaviour.
C54; D72; G14. |
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Abstract. Winning elections is essentially a matter of translating the attitudes of voters into votes. While there is a vast literature in political science, in particular in election studies, on the effectiveness of political campaigns in driving voter choice, we know very little, if anything, about the efficiency with which the inputs (voter attitudes) to the political process are converted into outputs (vote support). This article uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to examine the efficiency with which Australian political leaders and parties have, over the past three decades, converted voter attitudes (approval and disapproval) toward Prime Ministers and Opposition Leaders into votes (both for their own, and for their opponents’ parties). The results of the DEA analysis and associated modelling find marked differences in the political efficiency of recent Australian political leaders. Prime Ministers Hawke and Keating had superior political efficiency in converting attitudes to political leaders into votes, while Prime Ministers Howard and Rudd were relatively less efficient in doing so.Keywords. Election campaigns, Politimetric modelling; Data Envelopment Analysis, Voter behaviour.JEL. C54, D72, G14.
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Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences |
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2016-09-18
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/921
10.1453/jsas.v3i3.921 |
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Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 3, No 3 (2016): September; 248-258
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 3, No 3 (2016): September; 248-258 2149-0406 |
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eng
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/921/1032
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Copyright (c) 2016 Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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