2014
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2014.911483
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Which Issues do Parties Emphasise? Salience Strategies and Party Organisation in Multiparty Systems

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“…While some research shows that parties indeed fail to address the same topics in campaigns Farlie 1983, Spiliotes andVavreck 2002), other studies have found that parties in fact do engage with each other (Sigelman and Buell 2004, Damore 2005, Green-Pedersen 2007, Dolezal et al 2014. In any case, it is not possible to say that party competition in general is driven either by engagement or avoidance as issue engagement will vary across parties and by issue area (Green-Pedersen and Mortensen forthcoming; Kaplan et al 2006;Wagner and Meyer 2014). It is the main aim of this paper to understand and to explain this variation.…”
Section: Issue Engagement In a Multiparty Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While some research shows that parties indeed fail to address the same topics in campaigns Farlie 1983, Spiliotes andVavreck 2002), other studies have found that parties in fact do engage with each other (Sigelman and Buell 2004, Damore 2005, Green-Pedersen 2007, Dolezal et al 2014. In any case, it is not possible to say that party competition in general is driven either by engagement or avoidance as issue engagement will vary across parties and by issue area (Green-Pedersen and Mortensen forthcoming; Kaplan et al 2006;Wagner and Meyer 2014). It is the main aim of this paper to understand and to explain this variation.…”
Section: Issue Engagement In a Multiparty Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While saliency theory expects parties to emphasize the issue they own during the election campaign (e.g., Budge and Farlie 1983;Dolezal et al 2014; but see also Wagner and Meyer 2014), the evidence provided in this paper suggests that in electoral campaigns, it makes sense for parties to de-emphasize issues they own if the performance is mediocre or negative, as voters will punish parties on these issue even more severely. Hence, our study indicates which issues parties emphasize or should emphasize derives not only from their competence but also from their performance, as voters take both of these aspects into account when casting a vote.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 67%
“…Findings on party campaign strategies seem to lend support to this argument. In fact, while the saliency theory expects parties to emphasize the issue they own during the election campaign (e.g., Budge and Farlie 1983;Dolezal et al 2014; but see also Wagner and Meyer 2014), existing studies find parties' strategies to be influenced not only by their ideology but also by their record. For instance, Winkler and Praprotnik (2015) show that in times of a high unemployment rate, left-wing incumbents, despite owning the unemployment issue, are less likely to refer to their record on this issue.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Party organizations and the associated goals of office and policy moderate to which sub-constituencies parties are responsive (Lehrer 2012;Schumacher, de Vries, and Vis 2013), the degree to which parties emphasize issues they own (Wagner and Meyer 2014), and the outcomes of coalition bargaining (Sened 1996). This note demonstrates that -in addition to these earlier findingsthe more leadership-dominated a party the more fluid the party's platform.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 60%