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AECPA 2011 Award for a CIS publication
Madrid, 14 July 2011
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A CIS book on the image of politicians and their impact on the vote receives the award from the Spanish Association of Political Science
AECPA 2011 Award for a CIS publication
Madrid, Thursday, July 14, 2011- “Political leaders, public opinion and electoral behavior in Spain” , by Guillem Rico , published by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) in 2009, has won the Best Book Award, awarded by the Association Spanish Political Science (AECPA). The jury, which in this edition has evaluated the works published in the last two years, has highlighted their originality, innovation, relevance, impact and repercussion.
This is the first research work published in Spain where the nature and effects of images of leaders on the political attitudes and voting decisions of Spaniards are systematically and in-depth studied.
Guillem Rico , doctor in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, demonstrates that the images of leaders have a notable impact on the voting decisions of Spaniards, corroborating a phenomenon already intuited by students of electoral behavior in our country: a A good evaluation of the leader significantly increases the probability of supporting his or her party.
This work takes advantage of the availability of the enormous CIS database, which collects the popularity of the candidates over the last 30 years, and includes an analysis of the evolution of the evaluations of the leaders of the PSOE, PP /AP, IU/PCE, UCD and CDS between 1979-2009.
The results of this work suggest that citizens generally make sensible and politically reasoned use of considerations about leaders. It also demonstrates that the images of the candidates are intimately and congruently linked to the circumstances of the political debate, the performance of the governments and the proposals for action of the parties.
“Political leaders, public opinion and electoral behavior in Spain” shares this award granted ex aequo also to the work Azorín, parliamentary witness. Journalism and politics from 1902 to 1923, by José Ferrándiz Lozano.
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