Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy

Ennser‐Jedenastik, Laurenz; Haselmayer, Martin; Huber, Lena Maria; FENZ, MARTIN

doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12500

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“…Similarly, Barberá et al (2019: 898) show that the public's issue agenda leads that of elected politicians more so than vice versa. Larger, more well-resourced parties and more senior party members have been shown to particularly respond to public concerns due to officeseeking motivations (Wagner and Meyer, 2014;Ennser-Jedenastik et al, 2022) and to the collective party system issue agenda (Green-Pedersen and Mortensen, 2015).…”

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Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas

Dennison

Kriesi

2023

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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What has caused the marked, cross-national, and unprecedented trends in European electoral results in the 21st century? Scholarly explanations include social structure and challenger party entrepreneurship. We argue that these electoral changes more proximally result from public issue salience, which results from societal trends and mainly affects rather than is caused by party agenda setting. We use aggregate-level panel data across 28 European countries to show that the public issue salience of three issues—unemployment, immigration, and the environment—is associated with later variation in the results of the conservative, social democrat, liberal, radical right, radical left, and green party families in theoretically expected directions, while the party system issue agenda has weaker associations. Public issue salience, in turn, is rooted in societal trends (unemployment rates, immigration rates and temperature anomalies), and, in some cases, party agenda setting. We validate our mechanism at the individual-level across 28 European countries and using UK panel data. Our findings have implications for our understanding of the agency of parties, the permanency of recent electoral changes, and how voters reconcile their social and political worlds.

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Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas

Dennison

Kriesi

2023

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…Indeed, we find that core policy statements only account for a quarter of parties' election manifestos. Parties strategically weigh the costs and benefits of talking about their preferred issues versus responding to their opponents or the general public; this may in fact even lead to both strategies being pursued simultaneously at different intra-party levels (Ennser-Jedenastik et al, 2021).…”

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How non-radical right parties strategically use nativist language: Evidence from an automated content analysis of Austrian, German, and Swiss election manifestos

Habersack

Werner

2022

Party Politics

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Radical right parties and their nativist ideas have gained considerable momentum, compelling non-radical parties to “engage” with this demand and with the nativist “Zeitgeist.” Yet, aside from general trends such as tougher stances on migration, we know little about the strategic choices of parties when balancing their commitment to core policy goals and the need to be “timely,” that is, to respond changing environments. Theoretically, parties may either adapt their ideological “core” to signal commitment or merely attribute nativist ideas to secondary issue areas to signal general responsiveness. Drawing on Austrian, German, and Swiss manifestos for over two decades and establishing a novel dictionary to assess parties’ use of nativism, we find that while previous studies showing right-wing parties to compete with RRs using nativism in the same domains are correct, the strategic choices around this competition are more complex. How much commitment to nativist ideas parties show depends on whether RR parties use the same domains to construct their nativist claims. For research on party competition, this means that more attention should be paid to how rather than if parties “engage” with their rivals.

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“…Debus und Florczak 2022 ; Ennser-Jedenastik et al. 2022 ), parliamentary questions (e.g. Höhmann und Krauss 2022 ; Martin 2011 ), or parliamentary speeches (e.g.…”

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Studying politics at the local level in Germany: a tale of missing data

2023

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What are the strategies of political parties in multi-level government systems and how do voters respond to these strategies? At the national and state level, many researchers have worked with data from party manifestos, candidate lists, party press releases, parliamentary questions, and parliamentary speeches. At the local level, these standard components of the political science toolbox are not available to researchers in many countries—including Germany. The absence of these data means that politics at the local level remains chronically understudied. In this research note, we draw attention to the dearth of data when studying local politics and the questions that we cannot answer as a result. Specifically, we document our failed attempt to collect local party manifestos in smaller municipalities which would have been the basis for an analysis of political parties’ strategies in response to the lowering of voting ages in local elections in German states. We point to examples from other countries that show that it does not have to be this way.

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Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas

Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas

How non-radical right parties strategically use nativist language: Evidence from an automated content analysis of Austrian, German, and Swiss election manifestos

Studying politics at the local level in Germany: a tale of missing data

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