La doctorante Semra Sevi a publié un article intitulé « Do young voters vote for young leaders? » dans la revue Electoral Studies. Elle s’intéresse au comportement des jeunes électeurs vis-à-vis des candidats au profil sociodémographique similaire.  

SYNOPSIS : A growing body of literature shows that voters tend to vote for candidates who share their own socio-demographic profile. A key reason for this is because they believe those candidates are more likely to promote their preferences and interests. If political representation is important to voters, we might expect young voters to demand better descriptive representation by supporting younger politicians. Recent studies have found an age affinity for turnout and vote choice. However, none of these studies are comparative or focus on leaders. Using cross-national data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project, covering about 853,414 individual voters, 51 countries,126 elections, and 639 unique leaders, I test the hypotheses that a leader is more popular among voters closer to them in age and that such voters are more likely to vote for them. I find some support for both hypotheses though the effects are very small. 

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