Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7950305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob R Gunderson (0000-0001-9402-0907, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 435-449 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Party Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13540688231155429 |
| OpenAlex | W4322769953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 49 |
Issue salience is a fundamental component of party competition, yet we know little about when, where, or why parties’ issue emphases converge or diverge. I propose an original operationalization of issue salience divergence, the extent to which parties’ issue emphases differ from each other in an election, that generates values at the party-election and country-election levels. I leverage data from party manifestos to calculate scores for 2,308 party-election combinations of 381 unique parties in 426 elections across thirty European countries, the most comprehensive dataset to date. I find that issue salience divergence is generally low and has starkly decreased over time, but countries and parties differ substantially. As an initial step in understanding these differences, I propose and test initial expectations of how party and democracy age, electoral systems, and party type alter the incentives for divergent issue salience
Cognitive psychology · Democracy · Divergence (linguistics · Economics · Epistemology · Incentive · Leverage (statistics · Microeconomics · Operationalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Salience (neuroscience · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Determined by place or party? Issue salience in local election manifestos
From ‘promising spring’ to ‘land of fear’
Party brands, issue salience, and electoral volatility
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation
Better Against Than in Favor
Competing on competence
Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape
Which Factors Influence Issue Salience in Electoral Manifestos? New Insights From the Salience of Social Services in Dutch Local Elections
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data
The strategy of rhetoric
Party systems and voter alignments
Parties and party systems
Ideology, Strategy and Party Change
Partisan Priorities
Political Realignment
The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980
Postcommunist politics in a magnetic field
Political Parties
How parties’ issue emphasis strategies vary across communication channels
Riding the Wave and Claiming Ownership Over Issues
Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises
Electoral competition in Europe's new tripolar political space
Party convergence and vote switching
Individual transnationalism, globalisation and euroscepticism
Avoidance or Engagement? Issue Convergence in U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1960–2000
Issue ownership attack
The Conceptualisation and Measurement of Issue Ownership
Exploiting the Cracks
The Dynamics of Campaign Issue Agendas
The Associative Dimension of Issue Ownership
How Stable Is Political Parties’ Issue Ownership? A Cross-Time, Cross-National Analysis
What to Do (and Not to Do) with the Comparative Manifestos Project Data
Undermining a Rival Party’s Issue Competence through Negative Campaigning
Issue Convergence Is Nothing More than Issue Convergence
Competing on the issues
First avoidance, then engagement
The cosmopolitan-parochial divide
Defeat at Home? Issue-Ownership and Social Democratic Support in Scandinavia
How parties compete for votes
When the chickens come home to roost
Effective” Number of Parties
The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems
Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties
Dialogue in American Political Campaigns? An Examination of Issue Convergence in Candidate Television Advertising
Was Duverger Correct? Single-Member District Election Outcomes in Fifty-three Countries
The Micro-Foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership
Parties' Policy Programmes and the Dog that Didn't Bark
When Does Income Inequality Cause Polarization
The Social Bases of Political Parties
Competition and the Dynamics of Issue Convergence
Electoral Systems, Party Systems, and Ideological Representation
Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy
Issue salience, issue ownership, and issue-based vote choice
Measuring issue ownership with survey questions. A question wording experiment
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946-2011
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |