Challenging by cueing? An investigation of party and leader cueing effects across mainstream and challenger party voters

This project includes all the necessary data and script files for replicating the analysis presented in an upcoming article in Political Behavior, title: "Challenging by cueing? An investigation of party and leader cueing effects across mainstream and challenger party voters". This research examines how party and leader cues impact voters from mainstream and challenger parties, with a focus on how expressive partisanship (partisan social identities) and instrumental partisanship (party competence evaluations) moderate these effects. Using data from a survey experiment conducted in Spain during a period of party system restructuring, we discover similar cueing effects across party and leader cues, particularly among voters of both mainstream and challenger parties. Moreover, we find that cueing effects for mainstream party voters involve a combination of expressive and instrumental reasoning, while for new challenger party voters, these effects are primarily driven by perceptions of party competence reputation. These findings challenge the notion that familiarity and time enhance cueing effects, diverging from socio-psychological approaches that emphasize the emotional and identity components of partisan identities in strengthening cueing effects.

本项目涵盖了用于复现《政治行为》（*Political Behavior*）待刊论文《以提示发起挑战？主流与挑战者政党选民的政党与领袖提示效应考察》所需的全部数据与脚本文件。本研究旨在考察政党与领袖提示效应（cueing effect）如何影响主流政党及挑战者政党的选民，并重点分析表达性党派认同（partisan social identities）与工具性党派认同（party competence evaluations）对上述效应的调节作用。本研究使用西班牙政党体系重构期间开展的一项调查实验数据，发现政党提示与领袖提示具有相似的提示效应，该效应在主流政党与挑战者政党的选民群体中均尤为显著。此外，研究发现主流政党选民的提示效应同时由表达性推理与工具性推理共同驱动，而新兴挑战者政党选民的提示效应则主要源于其对政党能力声誉的感知。本研究结论对“熟悉度与时长会强化提示效应”这一观点提出了挑战，这与强调党派认同的情感与身份维度可强化提示效应的社会心理学研究路径相悖。