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Too Important to Ignore? When Voters Seek Clarity About Politicians' Policy Positions
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Description: When do voters punish politicians who are unclear about their policy positions? I argue that we should focus on the issue a politician is ambiguous on: as the salience of an issue increases for voters, they demand more clarity on that issue and disapprove of politicians who are ambiguous. I test this argument using an original survey experiment run with 2000 Dutch respondents that combines Quadratic Voting measuring salience with a Conjoint that captures how voters rank parties which are ambiguous. This PAP is for a pilot for this study
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