Does Exposure to Stereotype-Disconfirming Politicians Reduce the Effect of Stereotypes on Voting? : Evidence From Seven Plagiarism Scandals in Germany

Herrmann, Michael; Tepe, Markus

Does Exposure to Stereotype-Disconfirming Politicians Reduce the Effect of Stereotypes on Voting? : Evidence From Seven Plagiarism Scandals in Germany

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2018

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Herrmann, Michael

Tepe, Markus

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Open Access Green

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Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

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Political Psychology. 2018, 39(2), pp. 303-324. ISSN 0162-895X. eISSN 1467-9221. Available under: doi: 10.1111/pops.12408

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We examine whether exposure to several salient counterexamples reduces the effect of stereotypes on voting. By taking advantage of a series of seven plagiarism scandals in Germany—a country with high regard for academic credentials where academic titles (Dr. and Prof.) get printed on ballot papers—we test whether the tendency to vote for candidates with a doctor’s title decreased in the wake of the scandals. Using cross- sectional and longitudinal estimators and controlling for a large range of potential confounders, we ﬁnd that the electoral advantage of candidates with a doctor’s title shrinks from a good half of a percentage point before the scandals down to a third after the scandals. In line with a subtyping hypothesis, the reduction is stronger for candidates from traditional middle-class parties (i.e., the parties of the politicians who were implicated in the scandals). Neither of these effects turns out to be strong enough to reach statistical signiﬁcance, however. We conclude that seven negative examples in one legislative term had no noticeable effect on the tendency to select candidates based on academic titles. Our study provides a rare opportunity to test the effect of stereotype-disconﬁrming information on electoral behavior. Our results contribute to a literature demonstrating the resilience of stereotypes to disconﬁrming information. They also suggest that plagiarism affairs are unlikely to reduce electoral incentives for politicians to obtain a fake doctorate.

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320 Politik

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Dr., doctor’s title, doctor’s degree, doctorate, electoral success, stereotype change, subtyping

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HERRMANN, Michael, Markus TEPE, 2018. Does Exposure to Stereotype-Disconfirming Politicians Reduce the Effect of Stereotypes on Voting? : Evidence From Seven Plagiarism Scandals in Germany. In: Political Psychology. 2018, 39(2), pp. 303-324. ISSN 0162-895X. eISSN 1467-9221. Available under: doi: 10.1111/pops.12408

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@article{Herrmann2018Expos-41958,
  year={2018},
  doi={10.1111/pops.12408},
  title={Does Exposure to Stereotype-Disconfirming Politicians Reduce the Effect of Stereotypes on Voting? : Evidence From Seven Plagiarism Scandals in Germany},
  number={2},
  volume={39},
  issn={0162-895X},
  journal={Political Psychology},
  pages={303--324},
  author={Herrmann, Michael and Tepe, Markus}
}

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