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How Affectively Intelligent are Dutch Voters?: Emotions and Vote Choice

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In this paper, we focus on citizens’ emotional reactions to address a puzzle in Dutch politics, namely the mechanism on the basis of which Dutch voters decide on their vote preferences. There is an ongoing debate in the Netherlands on the relative role of candidate considerations for vote preferences, and the significance of party oriented voting (van Wijnen 2000; Aarts 2001; van Holsteyn and Irwin 2003). The theory of affective intelligence provides the theoretical framework to explain the role of affective dynamics in regulating the use of partisan considerations and habitual voting versus the use of campaign relevant information such as candidate characteristics. When anxiety is absent voters automatically rely on previously learned routines and party identification as a determinant of vote choice, but under conditions of uncertainty and increased anxiety citizens abandon partisanship and ideology and rely more on issue choice and candidate characteristics. We show that the theory of affective intelligence explains electoral behavior also a parliamentary democracy based on coalition government. We find that the emotional reactions of Dutch voters towards their leaders can point to the conditions under which party heuristics vs. candidate preferences determine party evaluations.

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Capelos, Tereza., Leeuwenburg, Raimon. and Rijkhoff, Sanne. "How Affectively Intelligent are Dutch Voters?: Emotions and Vote Choice" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p197760_index.html>

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Capelos, T. , Leeuwenburg, R. and Rijkhoff, S. , 2007-04-12 "How Affectively Intelligent are Dutch Voters?: Emotions and Vote Choice" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p197760_index.html

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Abstract: In this paper, we focus on citizens’ emotional reactions to address a puzzle in Dutch politics, namely the mechanism on the basis of which Dutch voters decide on their vote preferences. There is an ongoing debate in the Netherlands on the relative role of candidate considerations for vote preferences, and the significance of party oriented voting (van Wijnen 2000; Aarts 2001; van Holsteyn and Irwin 2003). The theory of affective intelligence provides the theoretical framework to explain the role of affective dynamics in regulating the use of partisan considerations and habitual voting versus the use of campaign relevant information such as candidate characteristics. When anxiety is absent voters automatically rely on previously learned routines and party identification as a determinant of vote choice, but under conditions of uncertainty and increased anxiety citizens abandon partisanship and ideology and rely more on issue choice and candidate characteristics. We show that the theory of affective intelligence explains electoral behavior also a parliamentary democracy based on coalition government. We find that the emotional reactions of Dutch voters towards their leaders can point to the conditions under which party heuristics vs. candidate preferences determine party evaluations.

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HOW AFFECTIVELY INTELLIGENT ARE DUTCH VOTERS?: EMOTIONS AND VOTE CHOICE Tereza Capelos Leiden University tcapelos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Sanne A. M. Rijkhoff Leiden University Raimon Leeuwenburg Leiden University April 2007 Paper Prepared for the 2007 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago IL. April 12-15. Abstract In this paper we focus on citizens’ emotional reactions to address a puzzle in Dutch politics namely the mechanism on the basis of which Dutch voters decide on their vote preferences. There is an
Paul M. Richard. A. Brody and Phillip E. Tetlock. 1991. Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press. Snijders Tom A. B. 1992. “Estimation on the basis of snowball samples: How to weight?”. Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique 36: 59-70. 34 Van Holsteyn Joop J. M and Galen A. Irwin. 2003. “Never a Dull Moment: Pim Fortuyn and the Dutch Parliamentary Election of 2002”. West European Politics 26: 2 41-66. Van Wijnen Pieter .2000. “Candidates and


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