Position, selective emphasis and framing

Elias, Anwen; Szöcsik, Edina; Zuber, Christina Isabel

doi:10.1177/1354068815597572

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“…These are two of the strategies proposed by Elias et al as being available to political parties in two-dimensional competitive settings. 81 Within this broad categorization, however, the study's findings also illustrate that there is scope for SNRPs' strategies to be dynamic, in response to a range of external and internal factors that lead parties to manipulate their positions on, and the degree of attention given to, different issue dimensions. This framework for explaining the drivers of SNRPs' strategic behavior constitutes the study's second theoretical contribution and suggests a set of hypotheses about the determinants of SNRPs' strategic behavior that future work can test on different cases in different contexts.…”

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Catalan Independence and the Challenge of Credibility: The Causes and Consequences of Catalan Nationalist Parties’ Strategic Behavior

Elias¹

2015

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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Catalan Independence and the Challenge of Credibility: The Causes and Consequences of Catalan Nationalist Parties’ Strategic Behavior

Elias¹

2015

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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“…Second, recent research has addressed the strategies available to parties in contexts where political competition is defined by two cross-cutting dimensions (Elias, Szöcsik, and Zuber 2015). In a multidimensional policy space, parties' strategic behaviour (involving positioning, emphasizing, and framing) shape the connections between dimensions and this, in turn, affects voters' perceptions of the relationship between issue domains.…”

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Inferring party positions across issue dimensions

2020

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In this article, we argue that voters use party positions on an issue dimension as a heuristic device to locate parties on other dimensions on which they have less information about. We confirm our argument by fielding two survey experiments in a context with two distinct issue dimensions: the left-right and national dimensions in Catalonia. We find that the position of a hypothetical (but plausible) candidate on a national dimension exerts a great deal of influence on where respondents locate him on the left-right dimension, as well as on a more narrowly-defined socioeconomic dimension, but that the left-right position does not affect the perceived placement on the national divide. This asymmetry can be partly explained by the different nature of these issue domains, and specifically by the distinct ability of the national dimension to activate social group cues that give rise to projection biases. These findings have important implications for our understanding of issue misperceptions and of the strategic choices available to parties in multidimensional policy spaces. The nature of the issue dimension could facilitate why some issue dimensions tend to function as cue givers and others as cue receivers. We discuss the implications of our findings in constraining the strategies available to parties in multidimensional contexts.

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“…The assumption underlying this analysis is that political parties use specific words in their election manifestos in a purposeful manner in order to participate in party competition by means of offering positions on policy issues, selectively emphasising some policy issues, and engaging in framing policy issues [55]. Common approaches to generating data from election manifestos include the quantification of texts by enumerating the keywords appearing in them or by measuring the amount of space given to various issues [39].…”

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Civil Society and the Governance of Water Services: German Political Parties’ Reactions to Right2Water

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Triebskorn

2020

Water

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The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) Right2Water asked for guaranteed water quality and quantity all over Europe, and demanded that water services remain in the hands of public entities. Support for Right2Water was particularly pronounced in Germany. The German organisers managed to collect 16 times more signatures than the minimum necessary to be counted towards the quorum. How have the German political parties reacted to the overwhelming public support for Right2Water? To answer this question, we examined the election manifestos of the main political parties, published for the federal elections in . We concentrated on one specific goal of Right2Water, which refers to preventing the liberalisation of water services in the European Union. We expected the attention to and positioning of the liberalisation of water services to vary across the individual German parties. Since Right2Water was organised by public service trade unions and pursues an anti-liberalisation agenda, we expected left-wing parties to have laid a greater emphasis on this issue than right-wing parties, and for them to have adopted positions that aligned with the goals of the ECI. Our empirical findings show that a left-right division exists among the parties concerning the attention they paid to this issue as well as how they positioned themselves.

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Position, selective emphasis and framing

Cited by 104 publications

References 60 publications

Catalan Independence and the Challenge of Credibility: The Causes and Consequences of Catalan Nationalist Parties’ Strategic Behavior

Catalan Independence and the Challenge of Credibility: The Causes and Consequences of Catalan Nationalist Parties’ Strategic Behavior

Inferring party positions across issue dimensions

Civil Society and the Governance of Water Services: German Political Parties’ Reactions to Right2Water

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