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- Erlingsson, Gissur, et al.
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The Party Organizations
- 2015
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Ingår i: Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199665679 ; , s. 69-187
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hooghe, Marc, et al.
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Types of party affiliation and the multi-speed party: What kind of party support is functionally equivalent to party membership?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 26:4, s. 355-365
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research has repeatedly shown that formal party membership is in structural decline in liberal democracies. The same strongly negative trend, however, has not been observed for less formal forms of party attachment and authors have claimed that this leads to a pattern of multi-speed party adherence. In the current analysis, we investigate to what extent non-formalized forms of adhering to a political party have the same attitudinal and behavioural functions as formal party membership. The analysis is based on a 4-year (2011–2015) panel study in the Netherlands. The results indicate that party supporters are characterized by lower levels of commitment and stability than party members. What seems to matter, however, is the level of conviction, and a smaller group of highly motivated supporters resembles party members quite strongly. We close with some observations on how political parties might react to this deinstitutionalization of party attachment.
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- Kern, Anna, et al.
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The consequences of repeatedly losing on legitimacy beliefs
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Political Research. - : Wiley. - 0304-4130 .- 1475-6765. ; 61:4, s. 997-1018
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Modern democracies are dependent on regular elections and citizens’ legitimacy beliefs. Studies have shown that repeated electoral defeats are associated with lower levels of satisfaction with democracy and political trust. However, previous studies have only considered one type of legitimacy belief at a time, never in comparison. What is more, all previous work is based on observational studies and has not been able to identify any causal effects of losing repeatedly. Building on previous work and classic theories of political legitimacy beliefs, we argue that repeatedly losing in elections represents a form of long-term exclusion from democratic power that has additional negative effects on people's legitimacy beliefs because they lose faith in the system and start questioning its evenhandedness. We support our predictions using six-wave panel data and test our hypothesis a total of 16 times within the same context. The findings show that repeated losers are never less satisfied with democracy but that an additional electoral loss leads to lower levels of political trust. The findings have important implications for the meaning of different indicators of legitimacy beliefs but also for electoral research and the underpinnings of stable democracies.
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- Kölln, Ann-Kristin, 1986
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Does party finance regulation create a level playing field?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Election Law Journal. - : Mary Ann Liebert Inc. - 1533-1296. ; 15:1, s. 71-82
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The major objective of party finance laws is to create equitable, free, and fair party competition in which the true popularity of policy proposals matter most for electoral outcomes. But to what extent have party finance laws encouraged homogenous financial conditions for fair party competition? This article draws on the level playing field conception prominent in theories of egalitarianism and tests the assumption that party finance regulation eliminates or reduces inequalities arising from unequal starting points. It analyzes data on the party finances of 47 parties in six European countries between 1960 and 2010. The findings indicate that party finance law has been effective in some countries. Specifically, despite significant legislative differences, the introduction of party finance law in Denmark and the Netherlands was most effective in encouraging financial convergence amongst parties and thus more similar financial conditions. The findings suggest that party finance regulation has not always accomplished creating a level playing field; wherever it did, quite different structures achieved similar outcomes. When it comes to party finance regulation there appears to be no one-size-fits-all policy to create equal opportunities between parties.
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- Kölln, Ann-Kristin, 1986, et al.
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Emancipated party members: Examining ideological incongruence within political parties
- 2017
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 23:1, s. 18-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Party members across European democracies exercise increasing influence on parties’ policy platforms or personnel choices. This article investigates ideological (in)congruence on the left–right spectrum between members and their parties by drawing on a party membership survey of more than 10,000 individuals across seven political parties in Sweden. The results show that around two-thirds of members are not perfectly congruent with their party. In a two-step analysis, the article argues that emancipated members, with higher political interest and with a more independent self-conception, are more comfortable being ideologically incongruent with their party. We also provide evidence that ideological incongruence matters for members’ exit, voice and loyalty behaviour. It is associated with a more negative evaluation of the party leader (voice) and with a higher probability to either vote for another party (loyalty) or even to leave the current one (exit). The findings indicate that ideological incongruence within parties is not a trivial matter, but is rather substantial in size with potentially important consequences for party competition.
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- Kölln, Ann-Kristin, 1986, et al.
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Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1745-7289 .- 1745-7297. ; 34:2, s. 375-386
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Governmental budgets and the priorities they reflect are the subjects of recurring political debate. Research on political representation commonly focuses on relative spending preferences, mostly in isolated domains that are unconstrained, and so provides only limited information about people's preferences. Recent survey work considers the effects of asking about absolute spending levels in different substantive areas and in the face of revenue constraints. No studies do all three, though two studies get close and provide more fine-grained measures of preferences for spending change. We follow their lead but in a more general way, offering budget profiles that include increases as well as decreases in spending levels, embedded in a conjoint experiment in Sweden. Our results reveal that people appear to hold preferences on specific magnitudes of spending change, budgetary constraints matter, and the effects of increases and decreases in spending are not symmetrical. Although the implied preferences for spending are similar in direction to expressed relative preferences that are unconstrained, the levels of support across domains are different. The findings have implications for assessments of opinion representation, as inferences about the responsiveness of policy to preferences - and the congruence between them - differ depending on measurement of the latter.
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