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Are Irish voters moving to the left?
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Abstract The Irish party system has been an outlier in comparative politics. Ireland never had a left-right divide in parliament, and for decades, the dominant centrist political parties competed around a centre-right policy agenda. The absence of an explicit left-right divide in party competition suggested ... mehr
The Irish party system has been an outlier in comparative politics. Ireland never had a left-right divide in parliament, and for decades, the dominant centrist political parties competed around a centre-right policy agenda. The absence of an explicit left-right divide in party competition suggested that Irish voters, on average, occupy centre-right policy preferences. Combining survey data since 1973 and all Irish election studies between 2002 and 2020, we show that the average Irish voter now leans to the centre-left. We also show that income has recently emerged as a predictor of left-right self-placement, and that left-right positions increasingly structure vote choice. These patterns hold when using policy preferences on taxes, spending, and government interventions to reduce inequality as alternative indicators. We outline potential explanations for this leftward shift, and conclude that these developments might be anchored in economic inequalities and the left populist strategies of Sinn Féin.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Irland; Ideologie; Wähler; Selbsteinschätzung; politisches Verhalten; politische Ideologie; Wahlverhalten
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Left-right politics; ideology; voter self-placement; Eurobarometer
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 535-555
Zeitschriftentitel
Irish Political Studies, 36 (2021) 4
Heftthema
The Irish National Election Study, 2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1973737
ISSN
1743-9078
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)