Believe in me: Parties’ Strategies During a Pandemic, Evidence from Ecuador

IF 1.6 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Journal of Politics in Latin America Pub Date : 2021-11-26 DOI:10.1177/1866802X211058742
Angélica Abad Cisneros, Raúl Aldaz Peña, Diana Dávila Gordillo, Sebastián Vallejo Vera
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Abstract

There is a growing interest to evaluate the political aftermath of the pandemic. We study how parties attract voters under the redistributive pressure created by COVID-19, looking into the 2021 Ecuadorian elections. We classify the messages that candidates sent, evaluate if and how candidates used COVID-19 to mobilize voters, and assess how voters reacted to them. We followed 858 virtual events and gathered more than 1’575.000 tweets from candidates and their communities. We find that candidates did not place COVID-19 at the center of their strategies but used it to connect with symbolic messages about the capabilities of parties and candidates. Twitter users had a limited engagement with COVID-19-related content. These findings nuance our expectations of the pandemic. COVID-19 was only an element rather than the core of electoral strategies. Our empirical approach can be easily extended to other cases where in-person events are still limited.
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相信我:各方在大流行病期间的策略,来自厄瓜多尔的证据
人们越来越有兴趣评估大流行病的政治后果。我们以2021年厄瓜多尔选举为例,研究政党如何在新冠肺炎造成的再分配压力下吸引选民。我们对候选人发送的信息进行分类,评估候选人是否以及如何利用COVID-19动员选民,并评估选民对他们的反应。我们关注了858个虚拟活动,并从候选人及其社区收集了超过157.5万条推文。我们发现,候选人没有将COVID-19置于其战略的中心,而是利用它与有关政党和候选人能力的象征性信息联系起来。推特用户对covid -19相关内容的参与度有限。这些发现改变了我们对大流行的预期。COVID-19只是选举战略的一个要素,而不是核心。我们的经验方法可以很容易地扩展到现场事件仍然有限的其他情况。
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