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  • Behavioral consequences of political polarization have recently started to attract scholarly attention. Despite high and growing polarization in many democracies in recent decades, scholarly research on polarization’s effects on voting behavior, however, has been rather limited. In this paper, we evaluate how voters’ non-policy and policy considerations interactively affect their calculi of voting and their decision to remain loyal to their parties or to defect. Informing our theoretical expectations from the vast literatures on spatial and behavioral theories of voting behavior, we hypothesize that the effects of policy evaluations on the propensity of switching votes between consecutive elections for individuals with higher levels of affective polarization is of lower magnitude than that for those with less polarized attitudes. We argue, with increasing polarization, the mass public's responsiveness to parties' policy offerings decreases because the issues at stake become more of a matter of `us vs. them' than mere policy preferences. Employing the CSES data, a series of logistic regressions provide evidence for that polarized attitudes decrease the effects of policy preferences on economy, health, and business and industry on the propensity of vote switching. By demonstrating that non-policy considerations may make the policy considerations of those with polarized attitudes less salient, we present a more nuanced theoretical account of voting behavior and try to present a solution for an important puzzle in literature. The implications of our findings are discussed from the perspectives of not only economic and issue voting, but also democratic representation and accountability. (xsd:string)
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  • When Policies Become Irrelevant: The Effect of Polarized Attitudes on Vote Switching (xsd:string)
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  • Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), 14-18 April 2021, virtual (xsd:string)
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