This paper responds to Evans and Kat's critique of the valence politics model of electoral
choice. Their critique is deficient in several respects. First, the authors do not test the valence …

The influential valence model of voting developed over the last decade by the British
Election Study (BES) team assumes that party and leadership performance evaluations …

This paper analyzes voting behavior in the 2012 US presidential election. Using national
survey data gathered in the 2012 Political Support in America project, the paper investigates …

The claim that the 2008 presidential election was a transformative one is fast becoming part
of the conventional wisdom of American politics. Despite the election's undoubted …

The formal stochastic model of voting should be the theoretical benchmark against which
empirical models can be gauged. A standard result in the formal model is the 'mean voter …

Recent studies of voting behavior in Anglo-American elections have demonstrated the clear
superiority of the valence model over its rivals for explaining how people cast their ballots. In …

A six-wave 2005–09 national panel survey conducted in conjunction with the British Election
Study provided data for an investigation of sources of stability and change in voters' party …

Valence is a crucial concept in studying spatial voting and party competition. The widely
adopted approach is to rely on intercepts of vote choice models and to infer, based on their …

In the context of politics, the term valence was first introduced by Stokes (1963) in his critique
of the Downsian (spatial) model of political competition. 1 The term,“borrowed from …

Most formal models of valence competition add a single, separable and unweighted
component to the standard one-dimensional utility function of voters. This article presents …