All Outputs (10)

Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle (2023)
Journal Article
Poljak, Ž., & Walter, A. S. (2023). Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle. Party Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688231188476

Studies examining parties’ attack behaviour, also called negative campaigning, largely neglect temporal dynamics. Therefoe, this paper examines how the electoral cycle, the period between two elections, impacts parties’ attack behaviour in parliament... Read More about Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle.

The Effects of Politician’s Moral Violations on Voters' Moral Emotions (2021)
Journal Article
Walter, A. S., & Redlawsk, D. P. (2023). The Effects of Politician’s Moral Violations on Voters' Moral Emotions. Political Behavior, 45(3), 1191-1217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09749-z

Existing empirical research on voters’ responses to individual politicians’ moral transgressions pays limited attention to moral emotions, although moral emotions are an integral part of voters’ moral judgment. This study looks at U.S. voters’ discre... Read More about The Effects of Politician’s Moral Violations on Voters' Moral Emotions.

How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility (2021)
Journal Article
Walter, A., & Lipsitz, K. (2021). How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility. American Politics Research, 49(4), 359-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673x211004137

Citizen exposure to political incivility is increasing. Studies have found heterogeneous responses to incivility, but we know little about what drives this variation. This study investigates whether emotional responses to both civility and incivility... Read More about How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility.

Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study (2020)
Journal Article
Walter, A. S., & Drochon, H. (2022). Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study. Political Studies, 70(2), 483-501. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321720972616

What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative sample of 11,523 respondents in nine countries. First, it shows that t... Read More about Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study.

Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context (2019)
Journal Article
Walter, A. S., & van der Eijk, C. (2019). Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21(3), 612-629. https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148119842038

This study examines effects of negative campaigning by political parties on citizens’ electoral preferences in the 2015 General Election in England. We do so by using a large Internet panel study and an operationalisation of (perceived) negative camp... Read More about Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context.

Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias (2019)
Journal Article
Walter, A., & Van der Eijk, C. (2019). Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias. International Journal of Press/Politics, 24(3), 363-382. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161219843404

We compare measures of the tone of parties’ campaigns in the 2015 General Election in England, based on, respectively, coverage of parties’ campaigns in six national newspapers, citizens’ perceptions, and expert judgments. It is the most extensive st... Read More about Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias.

Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior (2019)
Journal Article
Walter, A. S., & Redlawsk, D. P. (2019). Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior. Political Psychology, 40(5), 1075-1097. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12582

Politicians’ moral behaviors affect how voters evaluate them. But existing empirical research on the effects of politicians’ violations of moral standards pays little attention to the heterogeneous moral foundations of voters in assessing responses t... Read More about Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior.

Fighting With Fire: Negative Campaigning in the 2015 UK General Election Campaign as Reported by the Print Media (2018)
Book Chapter
Walter, A. (2018). Fighting With Fire: Negative Campaigning in the 2015 UK General Election Campaign as Reported by the Print Media. In S. Zmerli, & O. Feldman (Eds.), The Psychology of Political Communicators: How Politicians, Culture, and the Media Construct and Shape Public Discourse, 123-142. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Negative campaigning, i.e., attacking the political opponent to decrease the opponent’s electoral attractiveness, is a frequently used electoral strategy, including by political parties in the UK. Research on negative campaigning does not often study... Read More about Fighting With Fire: Negative Campaigning in the 2015 UK General Election Campaign as Reported by the Print Media.

The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning (2015)
Journal Article
Tenscher, J., Koc-Michalska, K., Lilleker, D. G., Mykkänen, J., Walter, A. S., Findor, A., …Róka, J. (2016). The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning. European Journal of Communication, 31(2), 95-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323115612212

Faced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communic... Read More about The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning.

The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign (2015)
Journal Article
Van der Meer, T. W., Walter, A., & Van Aelst, P. (2015). The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign. Political Communication, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2015.1016639

Election campaigns are expected to inform voters about parties’ issue positions, thereby increasing voters’ ability to influence future policy and thus enhancing the practice of democratic government. We argue that campaign learning is not only conti... Read More about The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign.