Blind spots in the party system: Spatial voting and issue salience if voters face scarce choices

Kurella, Anna-Sophie; Rosset, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2017.07.001

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“…The basic premise of our study is that political competition in Western Europe takes place in a two‐dimensional space (Dalton ; Kriesi et al. , ; Kurella & Rosset ; Lefkofridi et al. ; Oesch & Rennwald ).…”

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“…For Western Europe specifically, research reveals a large group of left‐authoritarian voters (Kriesi et al. , ; Kurella & Rosset ; Van der Brug & Van Spanje ). On the supply side, however, no viable political parties occupied the left‐authoritarian quadrant of the typical post‐Second World War policy space – in contrast to the remaining three quadrants (Kurella & Rosset ; Lefkofridi et al.…”

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“…In contrast to the public demand for left‐authoritarian policy, parties with left‐authoritarian platforms have been historically largely absent from the supply side of Western European democracies (Kriesi et al. , ; Kurella & Rosset ; Lefkofridi et al. ; Van der Brug & Van Spanje ).…”

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The consequences of supply gaps in two‐dimensional policy spaces for voter turnout and political support: The case of economically left‐wing and culturally right‐wing citizens in Western Europe

Hillen

Steiner

2019

European J Political Res

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Parties with left-wing positions on economic issues and right-wing (i.e., authoritarian) positions on cultural issues have been historically largely absent from the supply side of the policy space of Western European democracies. Yet, many citizens hold such left-authoritarian issue attitudes. This article addresses the hypotheses that left-authoritarian citizens are less likely to vote, less satisfied with the democratic process and have lower levels of political trust when there is a left-authoritarian supply gap. Using data for 14 Western European countries from the European Social Survey 2008 in the main analysis, it is shown that left-authoritarians are less likely to vote and exhibit lower levels of satisfaction with democracy and political trust. A supplementary analysis of national election studies from Finland before and after the electoral breakthrough of the left-authoritarian True Finns Party in 2011 indicates that whether left-authoritarians participate less and believe less in the efficacy of voting is contingent on the presence of a strong leftauthoritarian party. This study illuminates how constrained party supply in a two-dimensional policy space can affect voter turnout as well as political support, and has broader implications for the potential further rise of left-authoritarian challenger parties.

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The consequences of supply gaps in two‐dimensional policy spaces for voter turnout and political support: The case of economically left‐wing and culturally right‐wing citizens in Western Europe

Hillen

Steiner

2019

European J Political Res

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“…On the demand side of electoral competition, the influence of policy preferences in relation to different issues on electoral choice has been at the core of current research (see e.g. Kurella and Rosset ; Lefkofridi, Wagner and Willmann ). There is also a growing body of literature studying both citizens’ and political actors’ location across various policy dimensions.…”

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“…Rosset ; Thomassen ). The importance of this topic for political representation has fueled a growing but still limited body of research focusing on the vote choice of economically left yet culturally conservative voters (Lefkofridi, Wagner and Willmann ), on the correspondence between the preferences of parties and their voters in a two‐dimensional space (Thomassen ) or the relative weight attached to economic and cultural issues by voters as they are forced into a trade‐off when choosing a party (Kurella and Rosset ). The effects of policy positioning on cultural and economic issues on political participation have also seldom been explored, though selective participation might have important consequences for electoral outcomes (see Lijphart ).…”

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The Rise of Cultural Issues as an Opportunity for the Right? Insights from the 2015 Swiss Election

Kurella

Rosset

2018

Swiss Political Sci Review

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This article presents an explanation for the success of the right in the 2015 Swiss parliamentary election based on the spatial model of voting. Since there is no party combining economically left with culturally authoritarian policy stances, voters with that preference combination face a difficult electoral choice. We show that they are more likely to abstain, and that those voters who turn out are more likely to cast votes for the right who represents them on cultural issues. We argue that this behavior is due to the fact that voters with this culturally conservative and economically left preferences attach more weight to cultural issues when making an electoral choice. On the aggregate, both findings imply an underrepresentation of economically left interests in the election result, and lead to a disproportional vote share for the right.

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Links-autoritäre Bürger bei der Bundestagswahl 2013: Sozialstrukturelle Determinanten und Konsequenzen einer Angebotslücke für Wahlbeteiligung und Regimeunterstützung

Steiner

Hillen

2019

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Blind spots in the party system: Spatial voting and issue salience if voters face scarce choices

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

The consequences of supply gaps in two‐dimensional policy spaces for voter turnout and political support: The case of economically left‐wing and culturally right‐wing citizens in Western Europe

The consequences of supply gaps in two‐dimensional policy spaces for voter turnout and political support: The case of economically left‐wing and culturally right‐wing citizens in Western Europe

The Rise of Cultural Issues as an Opportunity for the Right? Insights from the 2015 Swiss Election

Links-autoritäre Bürger bei der Bundestagswahl 2013: Sozialstrukturelle Determinanten und Konsequenzen einer Angebotslücke für Wahlbeteiligung und Regimeunterstützung

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