کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1052434 946388 2008 17 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Owning the issue agenda: Party strategies and vote choices in British elections
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم اجتماعی جغرافیا، برنامه ریزی و توسعه
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Owning the issue agenda: Party strategies and vote choices in British elections
چکیده انگلیسی
Explanations of party competition and vote choice are commonly based on the Downsian view of politics: parties maximise votes by adopting positions on policy dimensions. However, recent research suggests that British voters choose parties based on evaluations of competence rather than on ideological position. This paper proposes a theoretical account which combines elements of the spatial model with the 'issue ownership' approach. Whereas the issue ownership theory has focused mainly on party competition, this paper examines the validity of the model from the perspective of both parties and voters, by testing its application to recent British general elections. Our findings suggest that as parties have converged ideologically, competence considerations have become more important than ideological position in British elections.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Electoral Studies - Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2008, Pages 460-476
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