Why the left has more to lose from ideological convergence than the right
| Autor: | Grant, Zack P., Tilley, James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Politikwissenschaft
Political science party competition CSES politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture politische Ideologie Konvergenz Sozialdemokratie Parteilichkeit Volkspartei politische Linke politische Rechte Bundesrepublik Deutschland political ideology convergence social democracy partiality people's party political left political right Federal Republic of Germany |
| Zdroj: | Party Politics, OnlineFirst, 1-14 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article |
| ISSN: | 1460-3683 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/13540688221097809 |
| Popis: | Why are many traditional governing parties of advanced democracies in decline? One explanation relates to public perceptions about mainstream party convergence. Voters think that the centre-left and -right are increasingly similar and this both reduces mainstream partisan loyalties and makes room for more radical challengers. Replicating and extending earlier studies, we provide evidence supporting this view. First, observational analysis of large cross-national surveys shows that people who place major parties closer together ideologically are less likely to be mainstream partisans, even when holding constant their own ideological proximity to their party. Second, a survey experiment in Germany suggests that this relationship is causal: exposure to information about policy convergence makes mainstream partisan attachments weaker. Importantly, we advance previous discussions of the convergence theory by showing that, in both our studies, ideological depolarisation is most detrimental to mainstream centre-left partisan attachments. We suggest that this is due to differing party histories. |
| Databáze: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
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