Causes and electoral consequences of party policy shifts in multiparty elections: Theoretical results and empirical evidence

J Adams - Annual Review of Political Science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The spatial model of elections identifies factors that motivate party elites to shift their policy
positions, including changes in voters' policy preferences, rival parties' policy shifts, past …

Religious parties: Revisiting the inclusion-moderation hypothesis1 - Introduction

M Brocker, M Künkler - Party politics, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The saliency of religious parties in recent democratic consolidation processes forces the
discipline to reconsider key questions on party change: Under what conditions do (radical) …

Are niche parties fundamentally different from mainstream parties? The causes and the electoral consequences of Western European parties' policy shifts, 1976–1998

J Adams, M Clark, L Ezrow… - American Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Do “niche” parties—such as Communist, Green, and extreme nationalist parties—adjust
their policies in response to shifts in public opinion? Would such policy responsiveness …

Owning the issue agenda: Party strategies and vote choices in British elections

J Green, SB Hobolt - Electoral Studies, 2008 - Elsevier
Explanations of party competition and vote choice are commonly based on the Downsian
view of politics: parties maximise votes by adopting positions on policy dimensions …

Mean voter representation and partisan constituency representation: Do parties respond to the mean voter position or to their supporters?

L Ezrow, C De Vries, M Steenbergen… - Party Politics, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Do political parties respond to shifts in the preferences of their supporters, which we label
the partisan constituency model, or to shifts in the mean voter position (the general …

When voters and parties agree: Valence issues and party competition

J Green - Political Studies, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
There has been much talk of valence, consensus or competence politics but little theoretical
explanation or empirical investigation of how this has arisen. In this article I argue that British …

Catchall or catch and release? The electoral consequences of social democratic parties' march to the middle in Western Europe

J Karreth, JT Polk, CS Allen - Comparative Political Studies, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Although the move to the center of many European Social Democratic parties in the 1990s
was first rewarded with victories, these parties have since faced a remarkable electoral …

Valence and electoral outcomes in Western Europe, 1976–1998

M Clark - Electoral Studies, 2009 - Elsevier
Do events such as scandals, intra-party squabbling, and acts of perceived incompetence
affect political parties' valence images, and thus, their electoral fortunes? If so, how great is …

The mean voter theorem: necessary and sufficient conditions for convergent equilibrium

N Schofield - The Review of Economic Studies, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Formal models of elections have emphasized the convergence of party leaders towards the
centre of the electoral distribution. This paper attempts to resolve the apparent disparity …

[图书][B] Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates: Voting Advice Applications in Comparative Perspective

J Anderson, I Andreadis, P Dumont, A De Angelis… - 2014 - books.google.com
Voting Advice Applications–VAAs–have become a widespread online feature of electoral
campaigns in Europe, attracting growing interest from social and political scientists. But until …