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- Blais, Andre, et al.
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Do (many) voters like ranking?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 27:6, s. 1223-1228
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Do (many) voters like ranking? We address this question through an experimental study performed in four countries: Austria, England, Ireland and Sweden. Respondents were invited to participate in three successive elections. They were randomly assigned to one of four possiblevoting scenariosand asked to vote. The voting scenarios differed in terms of party supply (three or five parties) and the type of vote choice (vote for one party only or possibility of ranking all parties). After they had voted, respondents were asked about their satisfaction with the party supply and the voting system (using a scale from 0 "not at all satisfied" to 10 "very much satisfied"). We find little difference in overall satisfaction between those elections where people could rank order the parties and those where they could not.
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- Bolin, Niklas, 1977-, et al.
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Attracting tomorrow's leaders : Who joins political youth organisations for material reasons?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : Sage Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 29:3, s. 527-539
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study compares members of political youth organisations and explains variations in material incentives for enrolment using both organisation-level and individual-level factors. Empirically, it is based on a web survey of about 3,000 members of eight Swedish youth organisations. The analysis shows that young people have a complex combination of concerns, with the main dividing line being whether or not material incentives are important. At the organisational level, the prevalence of material incentives among members is positively related to the size of the mother party and whether it has government experience. Further, we find a positive association between material incentives and economic dependence on the part of the youth organisation on its mother party. At the individual level, we find that members who see the main role of the youth organisation as being to provide support for the mother party and for those politically aligned with it are more likely to have material motives for their enrolment.
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- Bäck, Hanna, et al.
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Populist radical parties, pariahs, and coalition bargaining delays
- 2024
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most parliamentary democracies have seen a rise of populist radical parties during the past decades. Many countries have also experienced severely delayed government formation processes, with caretaker governments in office for extended periods of time. Are these delays related to the rise of radical parties? We argue that the rise of populist radical parties may prolong the bargaining process, due to the fact that these parties are often treated as pariahs by other parties during election campaigns, which creates a complex bargaining situation after the election. We evaluate this claim by studying 121 government formation processes in the German States from 1990 until 2021, using original data which includes statements made by parties during election campaigns. The findings show that a higher share of seats allocated to parties from the radical right and radical left results in an increasing amount of days until a new government is voted into office. We also find that when a party that has been characterized as being ‘non-coalitionable’ during the election campaign ends up among the negotiating parties, the government formation process is severely delayed. These findings suggest that the rise of populist radical parties may create severe challenges for parliamentary democracy.
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- Dahlerup, Drude, et al.
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What does it mean to be a feminist MP? A comparative analysis of the Swedish and Danish parliaments
- 2021
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 27:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The issue of whether political interests are gendered, and if so, how, has been a recurrent theme in research. While there have been several attempts recently to address gendered political interests theoretically, the central concept of feminism has not been explored in any depth in this context. This article uses unique data pertaining to self-identification as a “feminist” MP, and explores how it relates to gender, party and certain policy issues previously connected to women in Sweden and Denmark. The two neighboring countries both have a high representation of women, but while the Swedish government called itself “feminist,” this was unthinkable in the Danish case. Our main finding is that in both countries male feminist MPs deviate from their female counterparts by not supporting “acting for women” which indicates a separate and gendered understanding of what being a male feminist implies. However, no strong association addressing intrinsic feminists male concerns such as parental leave, was found. Another possibility could be that male feminists refrain from taking agency from females, what the “acting for” option could imply. We conclude that the concept of “acting for women” needs to be abducted from its central stance in feminism as a category of representation to mirror the multifaceted contemporary landscape.
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- Dawson, Stephen
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Perceptions of opinion poll credibility: The role of partisan bias
- 2023
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 29:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What determines the credibility of opinion polls, and for whom? Opinion polls assessing voting intention are an increasingly prominent aspect of pre-election media discourse, yet they often vary in terms of their estimations, who conducted the poll, and where the poll is ultimately published. This letter considers the determinants of pre-election poll credibility when citizens are exposed to conflicting polls, contributing to a growing field which considers the subjectivity with which partisan-relevant information is perceived in polarised contexts. Using a conjoint analysis in Turkey, this paper produces strong evidence that polls are perceived differently across partisan lines. Whereas government supporters rely almost exclusively on a poll’s result, opposition supporters place considerably more weight on the media source when determining poll credibility.
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- Fittante, Daniel
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Generation-based position taking : Unpacking Finland’s decision to join NATO
- 2023
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : Sage Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scholars have identified the important roles personal characteristics — such as religion, gender, and race — play in influencing policymakers' position-taking behavior. One important yet overlooked personal characteristic is generation. This personal characteristic is not only influencing individual policymakers’ position-taking behavior; it is also changing some important political realities across Europe. An illustrative example of these changes is Finland's decision to join NATO. Based on documentary analyses of parliamentary speeches and personal interviews with Finnish officials, this article demonstrates that Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine revealed already established, generation-based cleavages among MPs whose parties had long opposed the prospect of joining NATO. The speeches also reveal a dynamic and evolving orientation to the Baltic states among an emerging political cohort of Finnish MPs, who have been socialized in a fully EU-integrated Finland.
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- Gunderson, Jacob, 1994
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Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present
- 2023
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Haugsgjerd Allern, Elin, et al.
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All about the money? A cross-national study of parties' relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1460-3683 .- 1354-0688. ; 27:3, s. 407-417
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines political parties’ approach to trade unions and the role of private and public party finance in contemporary democracies. We suggest that both unions’ direct donations and states’ party finance regimes may account for variation in the strength of parties’ organizational links to unions. We investigate this argument with a new data set covering parties historically aligned with trade unions and union confederations in 12 mature democracies. Our empirical analysis provides support for the hypothesis that financial contributions are positively associated with stronger organizational links but also suggests that this relationship is constrained by the level of public subsidies and state regulation of donations. The findings point to the need for more research on how private and public money affects parties’ interactions with civil society actors.
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