Title:Party and Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections: Towards a reassessment
Author(s):GARZIA, DiegoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Social-psychological models of voting behaviour systematically downsize the relevance of party leader evaluations by conceiving them as mere consequences of causally prior partisan attachments. However, the validity of ...
Title:Party Contestation and Europe on the News Agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary elections
Author(s):SCHUCK, Andreas R.T.; XEZONAKIS, Georgios; ELENBAAS, Matthijs; BANDUCCI, Susan A.; DE VREESE, Claes H.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:In this article we analyse the news coverage of the 2009 EP elections in all 27 EU member states (N = 52,009). We propose that the extent to which these second-order elections are salient to the media depends on political ...
Title:Party Identification, Leader Effects and Vote Choice in Italy, 1990-2008
Author(s):GARZIA, Diego; VIOTTI, FedericoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Previous studies have portrayed the personalization of politics as a consequence of the changes in the electoral market and the resulting transformations at the party level. However, empirical research has not reached a ...
Title:Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
Author(s):MCELROY, Gail; BENOIT, KennethDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Systematic empirical research has yet to explain how national parties join political groups in the European Parliament. This article first demonstrates, using original empirical measures from expert surveys of party ...
Title:Party System Dynamics in Post-war Japan: A quantitative content analysis of electoral pledges
Author(s):PROKSCH, Sven-Oliver; SLAPIN, Jonathan B.; THIES, Michael F.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Qualitative accounts of Japanese party politics allude to the standard left–right spectrum, but they invariably devote much more space to discussions of foreign policy differences than to socioeconomic conflict. Quantitative ...
Title:Political cultures do matter: citizens and politics in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia
Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean; INOGUCHI, TakashiDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article is concerned with the examination of the attitudes of the 'common man' in two regions of the globe, both with respect to basic relations between citizen and state and with respect to the extent to which ...