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- Hagevi, Magnus, 1965-, et al.
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Party based conflict in national parliaments
- 2017
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In: Nordic Political Science Conference in Odense 8-11 augusti 2017. - Odense : Nordic Political Science Association.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Hagevi, Magnus, 1965-, et al.
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Party realignment in Western Europe : Electoral drivers and global constraints
- 2022. - 1
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Identifying a crisis for representative democracy in Western European party systems, this essential book studies the widening gap between political parties’ ideological economic Left–Right rhetoric. Combining in-depth theoretical analysis with empirical research, it addresses whether political party ideologies are converging or diverging, and whether these changes are initiated by the parties themselves, aligned with voter demand, or forced by economic globalization.
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- Loxbo, Karl, 1975-, et al.
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The decline of Western European social democracy: Exploring the transformed link between welfare state generosity and the electoral strength of social democratic parties, 1975–2014
- 2021
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In: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 27:3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Social democratic parties are crumbling at the polls. Surprisingly, however, the causes of this demise remain largely unexplored. This article contributes to filling this gap in the research by studying the long-term impact of welfare state generosity on the vote share of social democratic parties in 16 Western European democracies. If the welfare state indeed was a key factor behind social democratic growth in the past, we ask whether the recent plight of these parties is down to a reversal of their previously dominant success factor? The article makes three principal findings. First, we show that social democratic parties primarily benefited electorally from expansive reforms at lower levels of welfare state generosity. Second, we find that this dynamic of diminishing returns also helps explain the demise of the Social Democratic party family in the whole of Western Europe. Lastly, our results reveal that programmatic turns to the right predict electoral losses in the least generous welfare states, whereas such shifts either pass unnoticed or predict vote gains in the most generous ones. We conclude by arguing that the structure of welfare state institutions is one important explanation for variations in the demise of the once powerful Social Democratic party family.
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- Hagevi, Magnus, 1965-, et al.
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Changed Policy Congruence Between Political Parties and Voters? : A Comparative Study of Seven Party Systems in Western Europe
- 2018
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In: ECPR General Conference. ; , s. 1-19
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study is about changed policy congruence between voters and political parties in seven party system in Western Europe. To investigate change, this paper includes policy congruence between voters and political parties during five decades starting in the 1970s. According to scholars of political parties, especially advocates of the cartel thesis such as Katz and Mair, representative democracy in Western Europe is in an ever-widening crisis since the links between citizens and political parties are broken. By comparing unique data of the actual LeftRight and GAL-TAN positions in the election manifestos of 70 West European parties with corresponding views among their voters, this study argues that the crisis of representation is largely exaggerated. Instead, the policy congruence between current parties and voters, on left-right as well as gal-tan issues, tend to be at least as good as the time before the alleged crisis of representation started.
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- Hagevi, Magnus, 1965-, et al.
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DIPAC CITIZEN DATA : Technical report 1.0
- 2019
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The data described in this report were collected for the DIPAC-project: Decreased Ideological Polarisation and Conflict in Western Europe? This report describes DIPAC Citizen data set. The first part of this report gives information on the project as a whole, including discussions of case selection and core concepts. Following this, there are a technical report the DIPAC citizen data set.
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- Loxbo, Karl, 1975-, et al.
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Reliability testing of coded election manifesto data in the DIPAC-project
- 2019
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The data described in this report were collected for the DIPAC-project.1 The project’s aim was to closer investigate the proposed crisis of parties and party systems in Western Europe during the last decades. To fulfil this aim, one of our main goals was to collect electoral manifestos from all parties in the respective party system for all selected years, and code their ideological contents. The main reason for our choice to code manifestos was to provide a more detailed and nuanced foundation for analyzing ideological polarization and ideological change in Western European party system than the saliency-oriented perspective that has hitherto dominated manifesto-research. In this report, we conclude that the DIPAC coding of ideological position has yielded highly reliable measures, whereas the coding of saliency should be interpreted with some caution with regard to the GAL-TAN dimension and sub-dimensions.
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- Blombäck, Sofie, 1982-, et al.
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DIPAC Government Declaration Data : Technical Report 2.0
- 2022
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The data described in this report were collected for the DIPAC-project. The project’s aim was to investigate the proposed crisis of parties and party systems in Western Europe during the last four decades. The implications of the crisis are that the link between political parties and citizens has been broken, that the political substance of the dominant parties is becoming increasingly similar, and that party systems are being fragmented along new cleavages where right-wing populist, anti-immigration parties are being set against their opposites, such as green parties. The project aimed to answer the following two questions: 1. To what extent are the ideas and policies of political parties converging or diverging in Western European party systems? 2. Are changes in the parties’ ideas and policies initiated mainly by the parties, or are they adjusting to voter demand arising from social changes? One of our main goals was to collect and analyze data on governments in established democracies in a systematic and comparable manner for the time-period from the mid-1970s to the mid-2010s. The eight cases in focus in the project are Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland (not included in this data set), the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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- Hagevi, Magnus, 1965, et al.
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Party Realignment in Western Europe. Electoral Drivers and Global Constraints
- 2022
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Identifying a crisis for representative democracy in Western European party systems, this essential book studies the widening gap between political parties’ ideological economic Left–Right rhetoric and their increasing convergence on policymaking. Addressing whether these ideologies are converging or diverging, it answers whether these changes are initiated by the parties themselves, aligned with voter demand, or forced by economic globalization. The crisis of representative democracy in Western Europe is a prevalent issue in comparative politics. This comprehensive study assesses the problems faced by representative democracy by analysing ideological polarization and inter-party conflict in relation to the changing linkage between citizens, parties, and public policies, and the implications this has for representative democracy. Considering both supply-side and demand-side theories, it analyses five major theoretical themes central to the ideological convergence and polarization within party systems, including the cartel party thesis, the median voter theorem, realignment theory, consensus democracy theory, and globalization theory. Going beyond theory, chapters use five decades of empirical research to present new and unique longitudinal and comparative data sets covering eight party systems, ultimately providing a more accurate diagnosis of the vitality of representative democracy in contemporary Western Europe. Combining in-depth theoretical analysis with empirical research, this comprehensive book will prove invaluable to students and scholars of politics and political science, and policymakers concerned with party systems.
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