Iñaki Sagarzazu
Biographic Data
| ID | 846904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iñaki Sagarzazu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iñaki |
| FAMILY NAME | Sagarzazu |
| SIGNATURE | SAGARZAZU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8350-0454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 428 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
El monstruo bajo la cama: El chavismo como un tema divisorio en América Latina
Existe una amplia gama de literatura que analiza la interacción entre la política interna y externa. En este sentido, recientemente hemos visto que los políticos estratégicos utilizan líderes extranjeros divisivos como una herramienta para aprovechar en la política interna. Sin embargo, el uso de estos líderes en campañas nacionales, y particularmente las razones por las cuales esto ocurre, no ha recibido mucha atención en la academia. En este ar…
The Media Smells like Sulfur!!! Leaders and Verbal Attacks against the Fourth Estate in Unconsolidated Democracies
Government perpetrated attacks against independent media, ranging from journalists' imprisonment to verbal attacks against outlets, carry an adverse effect for freedoms in democracies. Verbal attacks specifically provide leaders with a low-cost, easy to execute tool to delegitimize critical media. In this paper we present a theoretical contribution on when leaders in unconsolidated democracies verbally attack the media. Furthermore, we propose a …
Economic Responsiveness and the Political Conditioning of the Electoral Cycle
Understanding the drivers of party issue emphasis and the specific role of public opinion is important to shed light on the mechanisms of contemporary party competition and to assess the quality of representation in liberal democracies. Previous research has produced conflicting results between issue ownership and issue dialogue perspectives and has ignored the role of time in party communication strategy. We present a theory focused on the econo…
The Foreign Policy Rhetoric of Populism: Chávez, Oil, and Anti-imperialism
Populists are often identified based on their behavior, but the discursive element of their identities is also a frequently observed characteristic of this type of leader. We examine the determinants of populist foreign policy rhetoric in the case of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. We argue that a leftist populist leader such as Chávez will focus on anti-imperialist themes, and we consider two mechanisms that may indicate the conditions under which he w…
Economic performance and center-periphery conflicts in party competition
The reasons pushing parties to politicize noneconomic dimensions of competition, and the consequences of this for the representation of public opinion, are badly understood in the party competition literature. This is a pressing research gap, especially given the recent and significant reactivation of territorial or center-periphery conflicts in Western Europe. In this article, we first argue that bad macroeconomic performance increases the incen…
Bring back the party: Personalisation, the Media and Coalition Politics
What effect, if any, does a change in type of government have on the degree of media personalisation? This article argues that the different incentives that single- and multi-party governments provide to individual politicians and parties affect the level of media personalisation. Where the parties are more involved (i.e. multi-party coalitions) there will be less media personalisation. In contrast, where a single individual can command the party…
Making and Breaking Party Leaders? An Informational Theory of Temporary and Lasting Impacts of Prime Minister Debates in Spain
Objective In this project, we develop an informational theory that identifies which prime minister debates are the most meaningful in terms of shifting Spanish public opinion . We argue that debates immediately following the installation of new leaders (because they shine light on leadership traits) and debates occurring in times of crisis (because voters can judge both the leader's ability to remedy the problems and their policy proposals) will …
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Evaluating the Dynamics of Parties' Issue Attention in Coalition Governments
Objective While selective issue emphasis is a widely recognized strategy of party competition, we have little knowledge about how coalition parties interact with each other when deciding which policy issues to emphasize. Therefore we ask: Who leads and who follows the issue agenda in coalition governments? Methods . We create an issue attention data set using quantitative text analysis from over 40,000 press releases. We use this data set and tim…
Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget
A country's budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper seeks to explain this heterogeneous coverage of a budget's policy decisions. To do so, it uses a uniqu…
Hugo Chavez's Polarizing Legacy: Chavismo, Media, and Public Opinion in Argentina's Domestic Politics
All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License
Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties
Coalition parties have to reconcile two competing logics: they need to demonstrate unity to govern together, but also have to emphasize their own profile to succeed in elections. We argue that the electoral cycle explains whether unity or differentiation prevails. While differentiation dominates at the beginning and the end of the legislative term in close proximity to elections, compromise dominates the middle of the term when coalition governme…
Setting the Agenda or Responding to Voters? Political Parties, Voters and Issue Attention
Why do political parties prioritise some policy issues over others? While the issue ownership theory suggests that parties emphasise policy issues on which they have an advantage in order to increase the salience of these issues among voters, the riding the wave theory argues instead that parties respond to voters by highlighting policy issues that are salient in the minds of citizens. This study sheds new light on the selective issue emphasis of…
The Political Conditioning of Subjective Economic Evaluations: The Role of Party Discourse
Classic and revisionist perspectives on economic voting have thoroughly analyzed the role of macroeconomic indicators and individual partisanship as determinants of subjective evaluations of the national economy. Surprisingly, however, top-down analysis of parties’ capacity to cue and persuade voters about national economic conditions is absent in the debate. This study uses a novel dataset containing monthly economic salience in party parliament…
Crisis Perceptions and Economic Voting Among the Rich and the Poor
This chapter leverages extensive survey data collected during the 2008-2010 period in order to understand whether individuals, from different economic circumstances and who might have been differentially affected by the Recession, respond similarly or differently to these economic shocks. The chapter describes how rich and poor voters responded to the economic crisis of 2008–2010 drawing on data from two panel studies conducted during the 2009 Ge…
Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession
This chapter leverages extensive survey data collected during the 2008-2010 period in order to understand whether individuals, from different economic circumstances and who might have been differentially affected by the Recession, respond similarly or differently to these economic shocks. The chapter describes how rich and poor voters responded to the economic crisis of 2008–2010 drawing on data from two panel studies conducted during the 2009 Ge…
Venezuela 2013: Un País a Dos Mitades
En este artículo se analiza el primer año del chavismo sin Chávez en la política venezolana.El 2013 estuvo marcado no solo por el fallecimiento del presidente reelegido, sino también por lo cerca que estuvo la oposición de obtener la victoria en la elección presidencial, que fue necesario hacer, para elegir al nuevo
Immigration and Electoral Change in Mainstream Political Space
Ideological congruency and decision-making speed: The effect of partisanship across European Union institutions
How does ideological congruency affect the speed of legislative decision-making in the European Union? Despite the crucial importance of actor preferences, the effect of partisan alignments and ideological composition of the European institutions has largely been neglected. However, we argue that the ideological congruence between legislative bodies has an important effect on the duration of policy-making. We test our theoretical expectations bas…
Where did the votes go? Reassessing American party realignments via vote transfers between major parties from 1860 to 2008
Nación vs. región: Las tensiones del sistema de partidos venezolano postcolapso
El colapso del sistema de partidos venezolano generó polémica debido a que éste se considera uno de los sistemas políticos más consolidados de Latinoamérica. Numerosos estudios han analizado las causas que contribuyeron a este colapso. Sin embargo, no existen estudios que muestren el proceso de reestructuración del mismo. A través del estudio de los procesos electorales venezolanos desde 1958 hasta el presente, este artículo muestra la existencia…
Legislator Success in Committee: Gatekeeping Authority and the Loss of Majority Control
In multiparty legislatures, the largest party or coalition may fall short of controlling a majority of plenary seats. However, plurality-led congresses generally endow the largest parties with extensive agenda-setting prerogatives, even when plenary majorities are lacking. In this article, we present a model and compelling evidence describing changes in the strategic behavior of committee chairs when majority control is lost. Using a dataset that…
Legislative Parties in Volatile, Nonprogrammatic Party Systems: The Peruvian Case in Comparative Perspective
This article extends the analysis of political parties in electorally volatile and organizationally weak party systems by evaluating two implications centered on legislative voting behavior. First, it examines whether disunity prevails where weakness of programmatic and electoral commonalities abound. Second, it analyzes whether inchoate party systems weaken the ability of government parties to control the congressional agenda. The empirical anal…
Setting the Agenda or Responding to Voters? Political Parties, Voters and Issue Attention
Why do political parties prioritise some policy issues over others? While the issue ownership theory suggests that parties emphasise policy issues on which they have an advantage in order to increase the salience of these issues among voters, the riding the wave theory argues instead that parties respond to voters by highlighting policy issues that are salient in the minds of citizens. This study sheds new light on the selective issue emphasis of…
Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties
Coalition parties have to reconcile two competing logics: they need to demonstrate unity to govern together, but also have to emphasize their own profile to succeed in elections. We argue that the electoral cycle explains whether unity or differentiation prevails. While differentiation dominates at the beginning and the end of the legislative term in close proximity to elections, compromise dominates the middle of the term when coalition governme…
The Foreign Policy Rhetoric of Populism: Chávez, Oil, and Anti-imperialism
Populists are often identified based on their behavior, but the discursive element of their identities is also a frequently observed characteristic of this type of leader. We examine the determinants of populist foreign policy rhetoric in the case of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. We argue that a leftist populist leader such as Chávez will focus on anti-imperialist themes, and we consider two mechanisms that may indicate the conditions under which he w…
Ideological congruency and decision-making speed: The effect of partisanship across European Union institutions
How does ideological congruency affect the speed of legislative decision-making in the European Union? Despite the crucial importance of actor preferences, the effect of partisan alignments and ideological composition of the European institutions has largely been neglected. However, we argue that the ideological congruence between legislative bodies has an important effect on the duration of policy-making. We test our theoretical expectations bas…
Legislator Success in Committee: Gatekeeping Authority and the Loss of Majority Control
In multiparty legislatures, the largest party or coalition may fall short of controlling a majority of plenary seats. However, plurality-led congresses generally endow the largest parties with extensive agenda-setting prerogatives, even when plenary majorities are lacking. In this article, we present a model and compelling evidence describing changes in the strategic behavior of committee chairs when majority control is lost. Using a dataset that…
The Political Conditioning of Subjective Economic Evaluations: The Role of Party Discourse
Classic and revisionist perspectives on economic voting have thoroughly analyzed the role of macroeconomic indicators and individual partisanship as determinants of subjective evaluations of the national economy. Surprisingly, however, top-down analysis of parties’ capacity to cue and persuade voters about national economic conditions is absent in the debate. This study uses a novel dataset containing monthly economic salience in party parliament…
Immigration and Electoral Change in Mainstream Political Space
Economic Responsiveness and the Political Conditioning of the Electoral Cycle
Understanding the drivers of party issue emphasis and the specific role of public opinion is important to shed light on the mechanisms of contemporary party competition and to assess the quality of representation in liberal democracies. Previous research has produced conflicting results between issue ownership and issue dialogue perspectives and has ignored the role of time in party communication strategy. We present a theory focused on the econo…
Economic performance and center-periphery conflicts in party competition
The reasons pushing parties to politicize noneconomic dimensions of competition, and the consequences of this for the representation of public opinion, are badly understood in the party competition literature. This is a pressing research gap, especially given the recent and significant reactivation of territorial or center-periphery conflicts in Western Europe. In this article, we first argue that bad macroeconomic performance increases the incen…
The Media Smells like Sulfur!!! Leaders and Verbal Attacks against the Fourth Estate in Unconsolidated Democracies
Government perpetrated attacks against independent media, ranging from journalists' imprisonment to verbal attacks against outlets, carry an adverse effect for freedoms in democracies. Verbal attacks specifically provide leaders with a low-cost, easy to execute tool to delegitimize critical media. In this paper we present a theoretical contribution on when leaders in unconsolidated democracies verbally attack the media. Furthermore, we propose a …
Bring back the party: Personalisation, the Media and Coalition Politics
What effect, if any, does a change in type of government have on the degree of media personalisation? This article argues that the different incentives that single- and multi-party governments provide to individual politicians and parties affect the level of media personalisation. Where the parties are more involved (i.e. multi-party coalitions) there will be less media personalisation. In contrast, where a single individual can command the party…
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Evaluating the Dynamics of Parties' Issue Attention in Coalition Governments
Objective While selective issue emphasis is a widely recognized strategy of party competition, we have little knowledge about how coalition parties interact with each other when deciding which policy issues to emphasize. Therefore we ask: Who leads and who follows the issue agenda in coalition governments? Methods . We create an issue attention data set using quantitative text analysis from over 40,000 press releases. We use this data set and tim…
Hugo Chavez's Polarizing Legacy: Chavismo, Media, and Public Opinion in Argentina's Domestic Politics
All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License
Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget
A country's budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper seeks to explain this heterogeneous coverage of a budget's policy decisions. To do so, it uses a uniqu…
Legislative Parties in Volatile, Nonprogrammatic Party Systems: The Peruvian Case in Comparative Perspective
This article extends the analysis of political parties in electorally volatile and organizationally weak party systems by evaluating two implications centered on legislative voting behavior. First, it examines whether disunity prevails where weakness of programmatic and electoral commonalities abound. Second, it analyzes whether inchoate party systems weaken the ability of government parties to control the congressional agenda. The empirical anal…
Venezuela 2013: Un País a Dos Mitades
En este artículo se analiza el primer año del chavismo sin Chávez en la política venezolana.El 2013 estuvo marcado no solo por el fallecimiento del presidente reelegido, sino también por lo cerca que estuvo la oposición de obtener la victoria en la elección presidencial, que fue necesario hacer, para elegir al nuevo
Making and Breaking Party Leaders? An Informational Theory of Temporary and Lasting Impacts of Prime Minister Debates in Spain
Objective In this project, we develop an informational theory that identifies which prime minister debates are the most meaningful in terms of shifting Spanish public opinion . We argue that debates immediately following the installation of new leaders (because they shine light on leadership traits) and debates occurring in times of crisis (because voters can judge both the leader's ability to remedy the problems and their policy proposals) will …
Where did the votes go? Reassessing American party realignments via vote transfers between major parties from 1860 to 2008
Nación vs. región: Las tensiones del sistema de partidos venezolano postcolapso
El colapso del sistema de partidos venezolano generó polémica debido a que éste se considera uno de los sistemas políticos más consolidados de Latinoamérica. Numerosos estudios han analizado las causas que contribuyeron a este colapso. Sin embargo, no existen estudios que muestren el proceso de reestructuración del mismo. A través del estudio de los procesos electorales venezolanos desde 1958 hasta el presente, este artículo muestra la existencia…
Legislator Success in Committee: Gatekeeping Authority and the Loss of Majority Control
In multiparty legislatures, the largest party or coalition may fall short of controlling a majority of plenary seats. However, plurality-led congresses generally endow the largest parties with extensive agenda-setting prerogatives, even when plenary majorities are lacking. In this article, we present a model and compelling evidence describing changes in the strategic behavior of committee chairs when majority control is lost. Using a dataset that…
Legislative Parties in Volatile, Nonprogrammatic Party Systems: The Peruvian Case in Comparative Perspective
This article extends the analysis of political parties in electorally volatile and organizationally weak party systems by evaluating two implications centered on legislative voting behavior. First, it examines whether disunity prevails where weakness of programmatic and electoral commonalities abound. Second, it analyzes whether inchoate party systems weaken the ability of government parties to control the congressional agenda. The empirical anal…
Where did the votes go? Reassessing American party realignments via vote transfers between major parties from 1860 to 2008
Ideological congruency and decision-making speed: The effect of partisanship across European Union institutions
How does ideological congruency affect the speed of legislative decision-making in the European Union? Despite the crucial importance of actor preferences, the effect of partisan alignments and ideological composition of the European institutions has largely been neglected. However, we argue that the ideological congruence between legislative bodies has an important effect on the duration of policy-making. We test our theoretical expectations bas…
Crisis Perceptions and Economic Voting Among the Rich and the Poor
This chapter leverages extensive survey data collected during the 2008-2010 period in order to understand whether individuals, from different economic circumstances and who might have been differentially affected by the Recession, respond similarly or differently to these economic shocks. The chapter describes how rich and poor voters responded to the economic crisis of 2008–2010 drawing on data from two panel studies conducted during the 2009 Ge…
Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession
This chapter leverages extensive survey data collected during the 2008-2010 period in order to understand whether individuals, from different economic circumstances and who might have been differentially affected by the Recession, respond similarly or differently to these economic shocks. The chapter describes how rich and poor voters responded to the economic crisis of 2008–2010 drawing on data from two panel studies conducted during the 2009 Ge…
Venezuela 2013: Un País a Dos Mitades
En este artículo se analiza el primer año del chavismo sin Chávez en la política venezolana.El 2013 estuvo marcado no solo por el fallecimiento del presidente reelegido, sino también por lo cerca que estuvo la oposición de obtener la victoria en la elección presidencial, que fue necesario hacer, para elegir al nuevo
Immigration and Electoral Change in Mainstream Political Space
Setting the Agenda or Responding to Voters? Political Parties, Voters and Issue Attention
Why do political parties prioritise some policy issues over others? While the issue ownership theory suggests that parties emphasise policy issues on which they have an advantage in order to increase the salience of these issues among voters, the riding the wave theory argues instead that parties respond to voters by highlighting policy issues that are salient in the minds of citizens. This study sheds new light on the selective issue emphasis of…
The Political Conditioning of Subjective Economic Evaluations: The Role of Party Discourse
Classic and revisionist perspectives on economic voting have thoroughly analyzed the role of macroeconomic indicators and individual partisanship as determinants of subjective evaluations of the national economy. Surprisingly, however, top-down analysis of parties’ capacity to cue and persuade voters about national economic conditions is absent in the debate. This study uses a novel dataset containing monthly economic salience in party parliament…
Making and Breaking Party Leaders? An Informational Theory of Temporary and Lasting Impacts of Prime Minister Debates in Spain
Objective In this project, we develop an informational theory that identifies which prime minister debates are the most meaningful in terms of shifting Spanish public opinion . We argue that debates immediately following the installation of new leaders (because they shine light on leadership traits) and debates occurring in times of crisis (because voters can judge both the leader's ability to remedy the problems and their policy proposals) will …
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Evaluating the Dynamics of Parties' Issue Attention in Coalition Governments
Objective While selective issue emphasis is a widely recognized strategy of party competition, we have little knowledge about how coalition parties interact with each other when deciding which policy issues to emphasize. Therefore we ask: Who leads and who follows the issue agenda in coalition governments? Methods . We create an issue attention data set using quantitative text analysis from over 40,000 press releases. We use this data set and tim…
Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget
A country's budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper seeks to explain this heterogeneous coverage of a budget's policy decisions. To do so, it uses a uniqu…
Hugo Chavez's Polarizing Legacy: Chavismo, Media, and Public Opinion in Argentina's Domestic Politics
All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License
Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties
Coalition parties have to reconcile two competing logics: they need to demonstrate unity to govern together, but also have to emphasize their own profile to succeed in elections. We argue that the electoral cycle explains whether unity or differentiation prevails. While differentiation dominates at the beginning and the end of the legislative term in close proximity to elections, compromise dominates the middle of the term when coalition governme…
Bring back the party: Personalisation, the Media and Coalition Politics
What effect, if any, does a change in type of government have on the degree of media personalisation? This article argues that the different incentives that single- and multi-party governments provide to individual politicians and parties affect the level of media personalisation. Where the parties are more involved (i.e. multi-party coalitions) there will be less media personalisation. In contrast, where a single individual can command the party…
Economic Responsiveness and the Political Conditioning of the Electoral Cycle
Understanding the drivers of party issue emphasis and the specific role of public opinion is important to shed light on the mechanisms of contemporary party competition and to assess the quality of representation in liberal democracies. Previous research has produced conflicting results between issue ownership and issue dialogue perspectives and has ignored the role of time in party communication strategy. We present a theory focused on the econo…
The Foreign Policy Rhetoric of Populism: Chávez, Oil, and Anti-imperialism
Populists are often identified based on their behavior, but the discursive element of their identities is also a frequently observed characteristic of this type of leader. We examine the determinants of populist foreign policy rhetoric in the case of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. We argue that a leftist populist leader such as Chávez will focus on anti-imperialist themes, and we consider two mechanisms that may indicate the conditions under which he w…
Economic performance and center-periphery conflicts in party competition
The reasons pushing parties to politicize noneconomic dimensions of competition, and the consequences of this for the representation of public opinion, are badly understood in the party competition literature. This is a pressing research gap, especially given the recent and significant reactivation of territorial or center-periphery conflicts in Western Europe. In this article, we first argue that bad macroeconomic performance increases the incen…
El monstruo bajo la cama: El chavismo como un tema divisorio en América Latina
Existe una amplia gama de literatura que analiza la interacción entre la política interna y externa. En este sentido, recientemente hemos visto que los políticos estratégicos utilizan líderes extranjeros divisivos como una herramienta para aprovechar en la política interna. Sin embargo, el uso de estos líderes en campañas nacionales, y particularmente las razones por las cuales esto ocurre, no ha recibido mucha atención en la academia. En este ar…
The Media Smells like Sulfur!!! Leaders and Verbal Attacks against the Fourth Estate in Unconsolidated Democracies
Government perpetrated attacks against independent media, ranging from journalists' imprisonment to verbal attacks against outlets, carry an adverse effect for freedoms in democracies. Verbal attacks specifically provide leaders with a low-cost, easy to execute tool to delegitimize critical media. In this paper we present a theoretical contribution on when leaders in unconsolidated democracies verbally attack the media. Furthermore, we propose a …
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