Candidate Experience and Electoral Success.
Studies of how previous political experience affects a candidate’s electoral success have overlooked the experience that candidates get from running campaigns even if they lose. This article argues that experience running for office, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, could give candidates seve...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 170 - 188 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=159200829&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 159200829 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00238791 LAR jtl: Latin American Research Review issn: 00238791 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2022 vid: 57 iid: 1 pid: 15979 pub: Cambridge University Press artinfo: ui: 159200829 10.1017/lar.2022.10 ppf: 170 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Candidate Experience and Electoral Success. aug: au: Haime, Agustina Vallejo, Agustín Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie affil: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. University of Houston, Houston, Texas, US. Rice University, Houston, Texas, US. su: Political campaigns Political candidates Political science Database administration Offices sug: subj: Political campaigns Political candidates Political science Database administration Offices keyword: Brasil Brazil campaigns campanhas eleitorais candidate quality carreiras políticas elections eleições political careers qualidade das candidaturas Brasil campanhas eleitorais carreiras políticas eleições qualidade das candidaturas Brasil Brazil campaigns campanhas eleitorais candidate quality carreiras políticas elections eleições political careers qualidade das candidaturas Brasil campanhas eleitorais carreiras políticas eleições qualidade das candidaturas ab: Studies of how previous political experience affects a candidate’s electoral success have overlooked the experience that candidates get from running campaigns even if they lose. This article argues that experience running for office, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, could give candidates several benefits, such as expertise in running strong campaigns, a network of connections, and visibility among the electorate. As a result, candidate experience, not just office-holding experience, should be positively correlated with electoral success. The article tests this expectation in Brazil using a database of candidates for seven types of elected offices between 1998 and 2018. It finds that candidates who ran for, but lost, elected offices are more likely to win when they run in future elections for the same and lower-ranked offices, compared to candidates with no experience running for office. Thus, candidate experience, not just office-holding experience, is important for explaining electoral success in politics. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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