Attacks and Issue Competition: Do Parties Attack Based on Issue Salience or Issue Ownership?

Poljak, Željko; Seeberg, Henrik Bech

doi:10.1080/10584609.2023.2264224

Political Communication

2023

DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2264224

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Attacks and Issue Competition: Do Parties Attack Based on Issue Salience or Issue Ownership?

Željko Poljak,

Henrik Bech Seeberg

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The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics

Gross,

Nyhuis,

Block

et al. 2024

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Political parties are not free to choose which issues to focus on in parliament. At the national level, it is mostly economic and societal problem pressures which impact parties' issue attention. In this paper, we argue that at lower levels of multilevel governance systems, parties are additionally limited by institutional and financial constraints beyond their decision‐making competencies, which should impact their issue attention. Based on a novel dataset of local parties' parliamentary questions regarding 19 policy areas in 35 German local councils between 2011 and 2020, we demonstrate the constraining effect of institutional and economic conditions on party behaviour: parties are aware of the institutional constraints and devote more attention to issues where municipalities have more legal leeway, but this effect is moderated by the financial constraints that local communities face.

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The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics

Gross,

Nyhuis,

Block

et al. 2024

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice: Rationale, Trends, and Future Research

Makulilo

2024

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Negative campaigning is a worldwide phenomenon. As a strategy for mobilizing support, it affects the electorate and democracy. However, its effectiveness varies across space and time. While some studies assert that negativity depresses voter turnout, thereby delegitimizing the electoral process, others provide conflicting results that such campaigns mobilize voters since they supply information critical for their participation. There are three nuanced outcomes resulting from negative campaigning: the target electoral support diminishes; the attacker in a negative campaign experiences a backlash; or, when multiple candidates or parties compete, a negative effect on the target of the attack, coupled with a backlash effect on the attacker, may benefit the other candidates, who refrained from going negative. This article reviews the state of the scholarship on negative campaigning and its impact on democracy. It sheds light on a rapidly evolving field of political science and communication research.

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Attacks and Issue Competition: Do Parties Attack Based on Issue Salience or Issue Ownership?

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The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics

The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics

Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice: Rationale, Trends, and Future Research

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