Ideology for the Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5155486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Izzo (0000-0001-6235-8401, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1089-1104 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055422000843 |
| OpenAlex | W4306155970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 48 |
Political parties sometimes adopt unpopular positions that condemn them to electoral defeat. This phenomenon is usually ascribed to expressive motives-namely, parties' desire to maintain their ideological purity. Could ideological parties instead have strategic incentives to lose? To answer this question, I present a model of repeated spatial elections in which voters face uncertainty about their preferred policy and learn via experience. The amount of voter learning, I show, depends on the location of the implemented policy: a more radical policy generates more information. For a party whose ideological stance is unpopular with the electorate, this creates a trade-off between winning the upcoming election so as to secure policy influence and changing voters' preferences so as to win with a better platform in the future. Under some conditions the party gambles on the future. It chooses to lose today to possibly change voters' views and win big tomorrow
Economics · Face (sociological concept · Ideology · Incentive · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Game Theory and Applications · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Before the Storm
Process-Tracing Methods
Policy, Office, or Votes?
Why Parties?
Agreeing to Disagree
The Politician and the Judge
Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics
An economic theory of democracy
The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
Ideology
Principle vs. Pragmatism
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
Opinions as Incentives
Social psychology, demographic variables, and linear regression
Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different from Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties' Policy Shifts, 1976–1998
Deliberation as Self-Discovery and Institutions for Political Speech
Delegation to an Overconfident Expert
Missing Links in Party-System Polarization
Why Do Parties Change Position? Party Organization and Environmental Incentives
Primary Elections and Candidate Ideology
An Integrated Theory of Party Goals and Party Change
Bargaining and the Nature of War
Random Walk or Planned Excursion? Continuity and Change in the Left–Right Positions of Political Parties
What Moves Parties
Political Parties and Democracy
Robustness of the Multidimensional Voting Model
The Public as Thermostat
Leadership and Pandering
Endogenous Beliefs in Models of Politics
A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties
Friction and Party Manifesto Change in 25 Countries, 1945–98
A New Spatial Theory of Party Competition
Ideology, Party Factionalism and Policy Change
A Downsian Spatial Model with Party Activism
Voter Choice
Politics, Ideology, and Belief Systems
Tactical Extremism
What Happens When Extremists Win Primaries
Political Competition in Legislative Elections
Searching for Good Policies
Candidate Motivation
Experimentation and Persuasion in Political Organizations
Policy Motivation and Party Differences in a Dynamic Spatial Model of Party Competition
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |