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Volkens, Andrea; Bara, Judith; Budge, Ian; McDonald, Michael D.; Best, Robin C.; Franzmann, Simon

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199640041.003.0001

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“…These results are consistent when we control for the level of issue-specific policy conflict measured on the basis of the Comparative Manifesto Project data (Volkens, Judith Bara and Klingemann, 2013) for the middle of the electoral cycle. Results can be found in Table A4 in the appendix.…”

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Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties

Sagarzazu¹,

Klüver²

2015

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Coalition parties have to reconcile two competing logics: They need to demonstrate unity to govern together, but also have to emphasize their own profile to succeed in elections. We argue that the electoral cycle explains whether unity or differentiation prevails. While differentiation dominates at the beginning and the end of the legislative term in close proximity to elections, compromise dominates the middle of the term when coalition governments focus on enacting a common policy agenda. To test our theoretical claims, we draw on an innovative quantitative text analysis of more than 21,000 press releases published by coalition parties from 2000 until 2010.

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Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties

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Klüver²

2015

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“…These analyses demonstrate that the items scale well and form two separate dimensions (see Appendix). Party positions were also compared with other measures, such as those derived from expert surveys (Benoit and Laver 2006) and the Comparative Manifesto Project (Budge et al 2001; Klingemann et al 2006; Volkens et al 2013), confirming that the confrontational approach measures by and large the same positions as other methods.…”

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“…Thus, the confrontational approach measures policy positions, not saliency. In this respect the confrontational approach differs from the Comparative Manifesto Project (Budge et al 2001; Klingemann et al 2006; Volkens et al 2013) and from studies using Wordfish (Proksch and Slapin 2010) or Wordscores (Laver et al 2003) to measure party positions, as they rely on the counting of (quasi)sentences or words.…”

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The Centre Does Not Hold: Coalition Politics and Party System Change in the Netherlands, 2002–12

Pellikaan¹,

Lange²,

Meer³

2016

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Like many party systems across Western Europe, the Dutch party system has been in flux since 2002 as a result of a series of related developments, including the decline of mainstream parties which coincided with the emergence of radical right-wing populist parties and the concurrent dimensional transformation of the political space. This article analyses how these challenges to mainstream parties fundamentally affected the structure of party competition. On the basis of content analysis of party programmes, we examine the changing configuration of the Dutch party space since 2002 and investigate the impact of these changes on coalition-formation patterns. We conclude that the Dutch party system has become increasingly unstable. It has gradually lost its core through electoral fragmentation and mainstream parties’ positional shifts. The disappearance of a core party that dominates the coalition-formation process initially transformed the direction of party competition from centripetal to centrifugal. However, since 2012 a theoretically novel configuration has emerged in which no party or coherent group of parties dominates competition.

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“…Several techniques – such as mass surveys, expert surveys and content analysis of party manifestos – have been used to estimate party positions (Laver 2001). One of the most important sources of data is the Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP), which has been coding the electoral platforms of most parties in more than 50 countries since 1945 (Budge et al 2001; Klingemann et al 2006; Volkens et al 2013). Here the focus will be on expert survey data.…”

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Party Competition in the 2013 Italian Elections: Evidence from an Expert Survey

Virgilio¹,

Giannetti²,

Pedrazzani³

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In this article, we examine the structure of party competition in Italy in the February 2013 elections. We rely on the spatial approach to party competition to analyse the most salient dimensions of the policy space in the Italian context. Our analysis is based on quantitative estimates from expert survey data. These data highlight the salience of the socioeconomic policy dimension and capture the change in the importance of the EU dimension. Finally, this study provides an analysis of potential coalition governments in the aftermath of the 2013 general election that is grounded on the spatial approach to coalition formation.

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Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties

Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties

The Centre Does Not Hold: Coalition Politics and Party System Change in the Netherlands, 2002–12

Party Competition in the 2013 Italian Elections: Evidence from an Expert Survey

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