{"id":491,"date":"2013-09-27T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie?p=491"},"modified":"2013-09-27T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T10:46:43","slug":"why-bother-campaigning-campaign-effectiveness-in-the-2009-european-parliament-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Why bother campaigning? Campaign effectiveness in the 2009 European Parliament elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPIRe\u2019s Prof. David Farrell examines campaign effectiveness in the 2009 European Parliment elections with co-authors Maria Laura Sudulich and Matthew Wall in a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0261379413000796\">paper <\/a>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/electoral-studies\/\">Electoral Studies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Abstract<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This paper explores the effectiveness of European Parliament candidates&#8217; campaigns. We analyze the relationship between candidates&#8217; spending and their likelihood of success, controlling for a range of relevant co-varying factors. We then investigate whether the effects of electoral spending are conditioned by two variables: ballot design and incumbency. We find that, <em>ceteris paribus<\/em>, spending was positively related to a candidate&#8217;s likelihood of electoral success in the 2009 campaign, though this effect is small in scale. We also reveal that the electorally positive effects of spending are observable across both &#8216;party-centered&#8217; and \u2018candidate-centered\u2019 ballot structures, and that there is some evidence that incumbent spending is less effective than challenger spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIRe\u2019s Prof. David Farrell examines campaign effectiveness in the 2009 European Parliment elections with co-authors Maria Laura Sudulich and Matthew Wall in a new paper at Electoral Studies. Abstract This paper explores the effectiveness of European Parliament candidates&#8217; campaigns. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-spire-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}