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Do parties converge? : an empirical analysis of party organizational and policy issue saliency change in Western Europe (1970-2010)
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Journal of contemporary European studies, 2024, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 1-19
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PIZZIMENTI, Eugenio, CALOSSI, Enrico, CICCHI, Lorenzo, MASI, Beniamino, Do parties converge? : an empirical analysis of party organizational and policy issue saliency change in Western Europe (1970-2010), Journal of contemporary European studies, 2024, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 1-19 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75304
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This article aims at assessing whether party organizational profiles and policy issue saliency converged in 7 European democracies (Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK), from the 1970s to the 2010s. Building on the theoretical premises of the cartel party thesis and historical new-institutionalism, the paper argues that general tendencies in party policy issue saliency and organizational evolution driven by contextual factors have been taken for granted by party literature based on ideal-typical models. We maintain that party convergence is mainly associated to higher levels of socialization to government. Our empirical analysis shows that patterns of cross-country convergence among parties actually emerge concerning the saliency of the issues placed on the classical left-right divide, as well as party resources, while higher variance characterizes all the other organizational dimensions and post-materialist/value-based policy issues.
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Published online: 15 September 2022