Measuring Campaign Variation in Senate Elections

衡量参议院选举中的竞选变化

• 批准号: 9110207
• 负责人: Charles Franklin
• 金额: $ 5.5万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-15 至 1993-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9110207&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Measuring; Campaign; Variation; Senate; Elections

Research on elections has concentrated on the behavior and choices of individual voters. However, questions about the roles played by candidates and their campaigns as influences on voters typically have been ignored. Yet voter choice can only be understood within the context of a campaign and is properly conceived as a result at least in part of a contest between competing candidates. This innovative research attempts to measure the impact of campaign strategies on voter choice in U.S. Senate elections. Specifically, this research will collect data on the campaign behavior of US Senate candidates in the 1988, 1990 and 1992 elections. Candidate activities and positions will be determined based on newspaper coverage of the campaigns. These data will be merged with data on voter attitudes in these campaigns thus permitting assessments of the extent to which candidate positions are perceived by voters and influence their decisions. When completed this study will greatly enhance our understanding of the impact of campaigns on voter choice including the impact of negative campaigning and of campaigns in which candidates offer choices, not echoes.

对选举的研究集中在个体选民的行为和选择上。 然而，关于候选人及其竞选活动对选民的影响的问题通常被忽视。 然而，选民的选择只能在竞选活动的背景下才能被理解，并且至少在竞争候选人之间的竞争的一部分中被正确地理解为结果。 这项创新研究试图衡量竞选策略对美国参议院选举中选民选择的影响。 具体来说，这项研究将收集1988年、1990年和1992年选举中美国参议院候选人的竞选行为数据。 候选人的活动和职位将根据报纸对竞选活动的报道来确定。 这些数据将与这些竞选活动中选民态度的数据合并，从而可以评估选民对候选人立场的看法并影响他们的决定。 这项研究完成后将极大地加深我们对竞选活动对选民选择的影响的理解，包括负面竞选活动和候选人提供选择而不是回应的竞选活动的影响。