‘The elephant in the room’ no more: Europe as a structuring line of political cleavage in the 2017 presidential election

Schön‐Quinlivan, Emmanuelle

doi:10.1057/s41253-017-0041-x

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“…Indeed, LR axis is among the first two latent dimensions of our ideological space. In our dataset, however, as suggested by other studies (Miklin, 2014;Schön-Quinlivan, 2017;Grossman and Sauger, 2019), social cleavages related to globalization (e.g., European integration, increasing trade openness, and other related to our first latent dimension, LG) take an even more important role. This is a relevant finding, indicating the declining role of left-right cleavages, now observed second to globalization in its importance to determine social choice in digital arenas.…”

Section: Testing the Positions Of Users With Text Analysissupporting

confidence: 46%

Inferring attitudinal spaces in social networks

Morales

Cointet

Zolotoochin

et al. 2022

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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Ideological scaling methods have shown that behavioral traces in social platforms can be used to mine opinions at a massive scale. Current methods exploit one-dimensional left-right opinion scales, best suited for two-party socio-political systems and binary social divides such as those observed in the US. In this article, we introduce a new method to overcome limitations of existing methods by producing multidimensional network embeddings and align them with referential attitudinal for a few nodes. This allows us to infer a larger set of opinion dimensions from social graphs, embedding users in spaces where dimensions stand for indicators of several social dimensions including (in addition to left-right cleavages) attitudes towards elites, or ecology among many other issues. Our method does not rely on text data and is thus language-independent. We illustrate this approach approach on a Twitter follower network. Finally, we show how our method allows us to analyze the opinions shared within various communities of social networks. Our analyses show that communities of users that have extreme political opinions are also more homogeneous ideologically.

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Section: Testing the Positions Of Users With Text Analysissupporting

confidence: 46%

Inferring attitudinal spaces in social networks

Morales

Cointet

Zolotoochin

et al. 2022

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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“…Miklin (2014) has argued that the Eurocrisis may have enhanced the salience of globalization in domestic political debates. The prominence of debates concerning the EU in recent national elections in the Netherlands or France tends to confirm this awakening (Schön-Quinlivan, 2017).…”

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Economic internationalization and the decline of the left–right dimension

Grossman¹,

Sauger

2019

Party Politics

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This article examines the continuing importance of the left-right dimension for voting behavior in Western Europe. We test the extent to which economic internationalization may affect the capacity of this dimension to structure party preferences. We explore two dimensions of internationalization, long-term openness and short-term changes, assessing, respectively, the impact of international trade and foreign investments on voters' preference formation. To study the influence of changing context, we use four waves of the European Election Study (1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014). We show that openness to international economic exchanges tends to weaken the left-right cleavage. At the same time, long-term economic openness appears to soften the impact of short-term shocks for the relevance of left-right politics.

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“…Since Maastricht, it is standard practice for mainstream French Presidential candidates to promise to ‘reorient’ European integration—and then fail to deliver after election. In an election campaign where the issue of European integration had unprecedented centrality (Schön-Quinlivan 2017 ), Macron positioned himself as the unambiguously pro-European candidate, with the rather classic ambition of reinforcing European integration through revived and rebalanced Franco-German leadership. Significant nonetheless is the emphasis he placed in his manifesto—alongside the more conventional focus on EU trade policy and initiatives oriented towards growth and innovation—on the reinforcement of Europe’s social dimension.…”

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A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis

Clegg

2022

Comp Eur Polit

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‘The elephant in the room’ no more: Europe as a structuring line of political cleavage in the 2017 presidential election

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Inferring attitudinal spaces in social networks

Inferring attitudinal spaces in social networks

Economic internationalization and the decline of the left–right dimension

A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis

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