Replication Data for: Pastors for Pinochet: Authoritarian Stereotypes and Voting for Evangelicals in Chile

How does a candidate’s religion affect voting behavior in societies without politically salient interdenominational cleavages? Communicating one’s faith should win votes among fellow believers, but in the absence of intergroup competition, it should not directly affect the vote of out-group members. Yet a candidate’s religion can also influence out-group voting behavior via stereotypes that are politically salient. This article uses a survey experiment, conducted prior to Chile’s 2013 election, to examine how priming evangelicals’ historical support for the government of General Augusto Pinochet affects vote intention for an evangelical candidate for Congress. Identifying a candidate as evangelical boosts vote intention among evangelical respondents but does not directly affect members of the out-group. Among right-wing non-evangelicals, the Pinochet prime increases vote intention for an evangelical candidate, but it has no effect for center-left voters. These results suggest that pinochetismo remains salient for a new generation of right-wing voters in Chile.在不存在具有政治显著性的教派间分歧的社会中，候选人的宗教信仰会如何影响选民的投票行为？向同信仰群体传递自身的宗教身份，理应能够赢得同群体选民的支持；但在缺乏群体间竞争的情境下，这一行为不应直接影响外群体选民的投票选择。然而，候选人的宗教信仰仍可借助具有政治显著性的刻板印象，对外群体选民的投票行为产生影响。 本文依托智利2013年大选前开展的一项调查实验，探究告知受访者福音派（evangelical）曾长期支持奥古斯托·皮诺切特（Augusto Pinochet）将军政府这一历史信息，会如何影响受访者对一位福音派国会候选人的投票意向。 将候选人身份标注为福音派，能够提升福音派受访者的投票意向，但不会直接对外群体选民产生影响。在右翼非福音派选民中，皮诺切特相关信息启动会提升其对福音派候选人的投票意向，但对中左翼选民无显著作用。 上述研究结果表明，皮诺切特主义（pinochetismo）在智利新一代右翼选民群体中仍具有政治显著性。