dc.contributor.author | FRANKLIN, Mark N. | |
dc.contributor.author | VAN SPANJE, Joost | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-19T18:00:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-19T18:00:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Electoral studies, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 297-305 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0261-3794 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-6890 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/33958 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Italian party system largely collapsed in the early 1990s, providing us with a natural experimental situation in which voters were confronted with new parties - indeed, with an entirely new party system. How did they react? This paper develops a number of expectations on the basis of existing theory and tests these expectations using a dataset consisting of election studies conducted in Italy between 1985 and 2008. We find that a new party system causes confusion as to where parties stand in left-right terms, making it difficult for voters to make their choices on the basis of ideological cues. The confusion is greatest among older voters - those already set in their habits of voting, but only the very oldest cohorts (containing voters over 60 years old) are significantly debilitated. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. | |
dc.language.iso | En | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Sci Ltd | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Electoral studies | |
dc.subject | Party system breakdown | |
dc.subject | New parties | |
dc.subject | Electoral cohort | |
dc.subject | Ideology | |
dc.subject | Perceptual agreement | |
dc.subject | Italy | |
dc.subject | Extreme-right | |
dc.subject | system | |
dc.subject | competition | |
dc.subject | europe | |
dc.subject | positions | |
dc.subject | elections | |
dc.subject | hungary | |
dc.subject | western | |
dc.subject | choice | |
dc.subject | east | |
dc.title | How do established voters react to new parties? : the case of Italy, 1985-2008 | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.electstud.2011.11.009 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 31 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 297 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 305 | |
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dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |