Party Competition between Unequals

Meguid, Bonnie M.

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“…16 Bowler, Farrell, andKatz 1999;Carey 2009;Kam 2009;Laver 1999. 17 Carey 2009Ceron 2012Ceron , 2013Kam 2009;McElwain 2008;Meguid 2008. 18 Kirchheimer 1990.…”

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Leadership Competition and Disagreement at Party National Congresses

Greene¹,

Haber²

2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Theories often explain intraparty competition based on electoral conditions and intraparty rules. This article further opens this black box by considering intraparty statements of preferences. In particular, it predicts that intraparty preference heterogeneity increases after electoral losses, but that candidates deviating from the party's median receive fewer intraparty votes. Party members grant candidates greater leeway to accommodate competing policy demands when in government. The study tests the hypotheses using a new database of party congress speeches from Germany and France, and uses automated text classification to estimate speakers' relative preferences. The results demonstrate that speeches at party meetings provide valuable insights into actors' preferences and intraparty politics. The article finds evidence of a complex relationship between the governing context, the economy and intraparty disagreement.Theories of party politics often make strong assumptions about the relationship between parties' behavior and the preferences of intraparty actors. For example, scholars frequently assume that parties act as if they are unitary actors, and that the party leader represents the median preferences of the party's membership. Despite substantial theoretical development and a number of detailed case studies, few cross-national analyses of intraparty politics consider the role of intraparty preferences. 1This absence is striking. Intraparty politics and party preferences hold implications for a large range of political processes such as election campaigns, legislative politics and coalition governance. 2Building on these studies, we develop a theory of intraparty preferences and party leader selection by considering experiences in government and intraparty electoral rules. Broadly, we theorize that a party's electoral context influences its internal preference diversity. We then argue that candidates' statements of preferences influence their intraparty electoral success. Candidates who express preferences closer to the party's ideological center attract more votes than more extreme candidates.To empirically test hypotheses from our theory, we create a new dataset of intraparty actor preferences from their statements at party national congresses. By focusing on speeches at intraparty meetings, we begin to break open the black box of intraparty politics. Despite evidence that parties act as if they are internally divided in parliament, few studies seek to directly, quantitatively analyze actors' preferences outside this arena.3 Historically, intraparty actors' preferences have proven complicated to measure. Limited data has created a major hurdle in testing theories of intraparty politics. Like recent research studying political

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“…16 Bowler, Farrell, andKatz 1999;Carey 2009;Kam 2009;Laver 1999. 17 Carey 2009Ceron 2012Ceron , 2013Kam 2009;McElwain 2008;Meguid 2008. 18 Kirchheimer 1990.…”

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Leadership Competition and Disagreement at Party National Congresses

Greene¹,

Haber²

2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…Because natives' attitudes towards immigrants are often unfavorable, incorporating immigrants into a political party carries a significant electoral risk, especially when placing ethnic minorities in highly visible positions on the ballot. Anti-immigrant parties have been successful in many mature democracies and could conceivably make considerable electoral gains if the major parties engage in descriptive representation (Arzheimer and Carter, 2006;Ezrow, 2010;Franzmann, 2011;Golder, 2003;Hug, 2001;Meguid, 2010;Mudde, 2007;Norris, 2005).…”

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The electoral effects of the descriptive representation of ethnic minority groups in Australia and the UK

Zingher

Farrer

2016

Party Politics

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In this article we assess the electoral effects of the nomination of ethnic minority candidates. We argue that descriptive representation is an important factor in how parties in SMD systems establish their coalitions over multiple elections. We demonstrate this by showing that descriptive representation has a consistent effect on voting behavior, and thus that parties can rely on descriptive representation to win over specific segments of the voting population. Previous studies have been limited to single election years and single countries, but we collect original data from multiple election cycles in Australia and the UK to test our argument. We find that descriptive representation is consistently associated with a 10-percentage point bump in support from ethnic minority independents and Labour supporters. We conclude by highlighting the importance of this finding for party competition.

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“…The gradual emergence and development of what Meguid (2008) calls 'niche parties' typically implies an increase in the number of parties at the far ends of the political spectrum e assuming traditional parties occupy the more moderate political space. She argues it is not the identity (i.e.…”

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An initial profile of the ideologically volatile voter in Europe: The multidimensional role of party attachment and the conditionality of the political system

Hauwaert

2015

Electoral Studies

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Party Competition between Unequals

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Leadership Competition and Disagreement at Party National Congresses

Leadership Competition and Disagreement at Party National Congresses

The electoral effects of the descriptive representation of ethnic minority groups in Australia and the UK

An initial profile of the ideologically volatile voter in Europe: The multidimensional role of party attachment and the conditionality of the political system

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