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4 - Mapping Voter Preferences in Argentina and Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2019

Ernesto Calvo
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Maria Victoria Murillo
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
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This chapter describes the political attitudes of Argentine and Chilean voters based on the data collected in our original surveys. We provide evidence here of socioeconomic heterogeneity in voters’ policy views and perceptions of parties’ ideological positions, managerial competence, and capacity to generate expectations of targeted distribution in each country. Our survey results provide evidence of large asymmetries in the perceived non-policy endowments of Argentine parties. Argentine voters perceive the Peronists as having significant non-policy advantages in terms of macroeconomic competence and capacity to deliver selective incentives, which provides the party with opportunities not available to its rivals. More importantly, these non-policy endowments are perceived in a similar fashion irrespective of voters’ ideological position. By contrast, Chilean voters perceived the policy location and non-policy endowments of parties as intertwined, with voters on the left and right of the political spectrum perceiving parties that are ideologically closer as more competent managers of the economy, but without significant cross-party differences in non-policy endowments.
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Non-Policy Politics
Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies
, pp. 64 - 81
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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