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Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies
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Abstract Are political parties in young democracies responsive to the policy preferences of the public? Compared to extensive scholarship on party responsiveness in established democracies, research on party responsiveness in young democracies is limited. We argue that weaker programmatic party-voter linkage... mehr
Are political parties in young democracies responsive to the policy preferences of the public? Compared to extensive scholarship on party responsiveness in established democracies, research on party responsiveness in young democracies is limited. We argue that weaker programmatic party-voter linkages in post-communist democracies create incentives for parties to respond to their supporters rather than the more general electorate. Such responsiveness occurs in two ways. First, parties follow shifts in the mean position of their supporters. Second, drawing on the research on party-voter congruence, we argue that parties adjust their policy positions to eliminate previous incongruence between themselves and their supporters. Analyses based on a comprehensive dataset that uses expert surveys, parties' manifestoes and election surveys to measure parties' positions, and several cross-national and national surveys to measure voters' preferences provide strong support for this argument.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Mitteleuropa; Osteuropa; Partei; Demokratie; öffentliche Meinung; Parteipolitik; politischer Wandel; politische Ideologie
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
party policy change, ideological congruence; European Election Studies (EES)
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 919-938
Zeitschriftentitel
Political Studies, 70 (2022) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321721993635
ISSN
1467-9248
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)