Professor Nick Vivyan's Outputs (2)

Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations (2019)
Journal Article
Vivyan, N., Wagner, M., Glinitzer, K., & Moritz-Eberl, J. (2020). Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations. Electoral Studies, 63, Article 102093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102093

Motivated partly by descriptive representation concerns, political scientists have become increasingly interested in voters’ preferences over the social class of their representatives. Whereas existing research focuses mainly on preferences concernin... Read More about Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations.

Why friends and neighbors? Explaining the electoral appeal of local roots (2019)
Journal Article
Campbell, R., Cowley, P., Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2019). Why friends and neighbors? Explaining the electoral appeal of local roots. Journal of Politics, 81(3), 937-951. https://doi.org/10.1086/703131

Why do politicians with strong local roots receive more electoral support? The mechanisms underlying this well-documented “friends and neighbors” effect remain largely untested. Drawing on two population-based survey experiments fielded in Britain, w... Read More about Why friends and neighbors? Explaining the electoral appeal of local roots.