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policy-motivated candidates: a standalone construct

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Political science

candidates who care about the policy enacted as well as about winning, which leads their platforms to diverge rather than converge on the median voter.

In political science, policy-motivated candidates refers to candidates who care about the policy enacted as well as about winning, which leads their platforms to diverge rather than converge on the median voter. This meaning comes from Wittman (1983) in American Political Science Review.[1]

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References

Wittman, D. (1983). Candidate Motivation: A Synthesis of Alternative Theories. American Political Science Review, 77(1), 142-157. https://doi.org/10.2307/1956016

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