Juraj Medzihorsky,Staffan I Lindberg
Juraj Medzihorsky
The recent increase of democratic declines around the world - "the third wave of autocratization" - has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars tend to agree that the main threat to contemporary democracy arises from demo...
Paying for ads or getting into the news? How parties persuade citizens of their issue competence during an election campaign [0.03%]
支付广告费还是上新闻？竞选活动中政党如何说服公民相信自己的议题能力
Adrien Petitpas
Adrien Petitpas
During campaigns, parties must defend their reputation of competence on issues to persuade citizens to vote for them (issue ownership). Consequently, what are the most effective strategies to achieve this? I argue that direct (advertising) ...
The European NUTS-level election dataset: A tool to map European electoral geography [0.03%]
欧洲NUTS等级选举数据集：绘制欧洲选举地理的工具
Dominik Schraff,Ioannis Vergioglou,Buket Buse Demirci
Dominik Schraff
Datasets on subnational election results in Europe frequently do not match with regional statistics available for cross-national research, mainly because territorial statistical units change over time and do not map onto the national electo...
Nicole McMahon,Anthony Sayers,Christopher Alcantara
Nicole McMahon
What effect has the COVID-19 pandemic had on the political donations gender gap in Canada? Drawing on data from two national surveys conducted in May and August 2020, as well as Elections Canada data from 2019 and 2020, we find an overall d...
Carolina Plescia
Carolina Plescia
Government formation in multiparty systems requires election winners to strike deals to form a coalition government. Do voters respond and how do they respond to coalition government deals? This paper examines the short-term consequences of...
How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the 'left-right' and the 'European integration' dimensions [0.03%]
基于宣言、专家和党派精英调查的政党位置估计为何及如何出现分歧：关于“左右”和“欧洲一体化”维度的比较分析
Alejandro Ecker,Marcelo Jenny,Wolfgang C Müller et al.
Alejandro Ecker et al.
This paper examines the validity of three approaches to estimate party positions on the general left-right and EU dimensions. We newly introduce party elite data from the comprehensive IntUne survey and cross-validate it with existing exper...
Do interest groups bias MPs' perception of party voters' preferences? [0.03%]
利益集团是否歪曲了议员对其政党选民偏好的认知？
Steven Eichenberger,Frédéric Varone,Luzia Helfer
Steven Eichenberger
This study analyses how information provided by different types of interest groups influences the ability of members of parliament (MPs) to accurately perceive the preferences of those citizens who voted them into office. To study how infor...
Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda [0.03%]
立法辩论的传播：议员如何沟通议会议程
Lena Maria Huber,Anita Bodlos,Elisabeth Graf et al.
Lena Maria Huber et al.
While a rich literature addresses legislative agenda-setting in multiparty democracies, relatively little is known how members of parliament disseminate the legislative agenda beyond the parliamentary floor. Drawing on content analyses of 1...
Sweeping it under the rug: How government parties deal with deteriorating economic conditions [0.03%]
掩耳盗铃：执政党如何应对经济恶化
Catherine E De Vries,Hector Solaz
Catherine E De Vries
Party competition in advanced industrial democracies is generally characterized as a two-dimensional space consisting of an economic and non-economic dimension. This study examines (a) the extent to which parties strategically place more em...
District-level explanations for supporter involvement in political parties: The importance of electoral factors [0.03%]
选举因素的重要性：基层支持者参与政党活动的动因分析
Justin Fisher,David Cutts,Edward Fieldhouse et al.
Justin Fisher et al.
Traditional analyses of grass roots involvement in political parties have focussed almost exclusively on formal members. However, recent analyses across a range of democracies have shown that non-members (supporters) are playing important r...