Issue dimensionality and party competition in turbulent times
| Autor: | Stephen Whitefield, Jan Rovny |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 0506 political science Competition (economics) Politics cleavages dimensionality issue politics party competition Political science Political economy Premise 050602 political science & public administration Curse of dimensionality Party competition |
| Zdroj: | Party Politics, 25(1), 4-11 (2019-01) |
| ISSN: | 1460-3683 1354-0688 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1354068818816970 |
| Popis: | We start from the premise that the content of political competition is regularly remade by shifting contexts and by the strategic activity of political actors including parties. But while there are naturally thousands of potential issues on which politics can be contested, there are in practice and for good reasons ways in which structure and limits come to reduce the competition to more cognitively manageable and regularized divisions—in short, to issue dimensions. It is highly timely to return to these questions since, we argue, the social, political, and economic turbulence of recent years raises the possibility that the ideological structure of how parties present themselves to voters may be radically shifting. The papers in this special issue, therefore, each tackle an important aspect of the shifting character of the issues that underlie party competition in various European settings. In this article, we provide an overview of the relevant “state of the art” on issue dimensionality and how the subject is situated within the broad framework of understanding party competition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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