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Putting electoral competition where it belongs: comparing vote-based measures of electoral competition
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Abstract Electoral competition is a cornerstone of representative democracies. However, measuring its extent and intensity constitutes a challenging task for the discipline. Based on multilevel conceptualizations, we discuss three different measures of political competition (electoral volatility, vote switch... mehr
Electoral competition is a cornerstone of representative democracies. However, measuring its extent and intensity constitutes a challenging task for the discipline. Based on multilevel conceptualizations, we discuss three different measures of political competition (electoral volatility, vote switching, and voters' availability) and their relation to each other. We argue that electoral volatility and vote switching as indicators of electoral competitiveness tend to misestimate the degree of competition in multiparty systems. As an alternative, we propose focusing on the individual’s propensity to vote for different parties, i.e. electoral availability. Using data provided by the European Election Studies, we compare availability to electoral volatility and vote switching in the framework of necessary and sufficient conditions. Our regression results show that operationalizing electoral competitiveness based on voter availability - which is increasingly retrievable from cross-national voter surveys - helps to avoid type-II errors, i.e. identifying competitive elections as less or non-competitive.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wahlverhalten; Wechselwähler; Mehrparteiensystem; Partei; Präferenz
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
availability; political competition; volatility; vote switching; European Election Study (EES), 1989-2014
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 1-18
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 33 (2023) 2
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/233029
ISSN
1745-7297
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)