Title:Immigration, Europe, and the 'New' Cultural Dimension
Author(s):VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; VAN SPANJE, JoostDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Kriesi et al. announced the birth of a new cleavage in contemporary Western Europe, one dividing the winners and losers of globalisation. Their studies in 2006 and 2008 contain analyses of party positions in six countries, ...
Title:One electorate or many? Differences in party preference formation between new and established European democracies
Author(s):VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; FRANKLIN, Mark N.; TÓKA, GáborDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We investigate differences in the factors influencing citizens’ votes between elections conducted in established and new democracies using data collected at the 2004 European Parliament elections, comparing 7 former communist ...
Title:The Endogenous Economy: 'Real' Economic Conditions, Subjective Economic Evaluations and Government Support
Author(s):VAN DER EIJK, Cees; FRANKLIN, Mark N.; DEMANT, Froukje; VAN DER BRUG, WouterDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Conventional wisdom holds that the state of the economy is closely linked to the outcomes of elections: incumbent governments tend to be rewarded for good economic times and punished for bad ones. It has been suggested ...
Title:Rethinking the Dependent Variable in Electoral Behavior - on the measurement and analysis of electoral utilities
Author(s):VAN DER EIJK, Cees; VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; KROH, Martin; FRANKLIN, Mark N.Date:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:As a dependent variable, party choice did not lend itself to analysis by means of powerful multivariate methods until the coming of discrete-choice models, most notably conditional logit and multinomial logit. These methods ...