Voting in the Dutch ‘Ukraine-referendum’: a panel study on the dynamics of party preference, EU-attitudes, and referendum-specific considerations

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    While we expect to find support for H6 and H7, we realize that there are also theoretical reasons to expect another pattern. In order to use the partisan cue, one needs to be aware of the positions that parties take on the issue. Very inattentive citizens will therefore not use this ‘peripheral’ route, while this route is ‘easy’ for attentive citizens. Moreover, without a certain pre-existing body of knowledge, new information is unlikely to be remembered (Zaller 1992). So, there are reasons to expect the effects predicted by H6 and H7 to be actually reversed.

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    Specifically, the first survey wave commenced on March 7th, 1 month before the referendum on April 6th, and closed on March 13th. 43% of the respondents took part in the first 2 days; another 11% on the third. The second wave commenced on March 21st, more than 2 weeks before the referendum, and closed on March 27th.

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    Analyses in MLWin and via Stata’s gllamm command came to similar conclusions.

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    To assess whether the polarization in Fig. 4 was more pronounced among citizens with different levels of political sophistication, we tested a three-way interaction between the anti-bribery considerations * campaign attentiveness * education (we consider education to be the best proxy for sophistication in this data set). This three-way interaction was not significant, however (p = 0.20).

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Appendix: Descriptives main variables

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Table 3 Descriptives of individual-level variables
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Table 4 Descriptives of individual-wave variables
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