The growing importance of issue competition: The changing nature of party competition in Western Europe

Political Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 607-628

  Green Pedersen, Christoffer ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548458101     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00686.x     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Aardal, B. (2003) Velgere i Villrede Oslo : N. W. Damm og Søn.
2. Aardal, B. van Wijnen, P. (2005 Issue Voting in J. Thomassen (ed The European Voter. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 192 212.
3. Andersen, J. G. Borre, O. (eds 2003) Politisk forandring. Århus : Systime.
4. Bale, T. (2003 Cinderella and Her Ugly Sisters: The Mainstream and Extreme Right in Europe's Bipolarising Party Systems Western European Politics, 26 (3 67 90.
5. Betz, H. G. (1994) Radical Right Wing Populism in Western Europe. London : Macmillan.
6. Budge, I. (1993 Issues, Dimensions, and Agenda Change in Post War Democracies in W. H. Riker (ed Agenda Formation. Ann Arbor MI : University of Michigan Press, pp. 41 80.
7. Budge, I. Farlie, D. (1983 Party Competition - Selective Emphasis or Direct Confrontation? An Alternative View with Data in H. Daalder P. Mair (eds Western European Party Systems. Continuity and Change. London : Sage Publications, pp. 267 305.
8. Budge, I., Klingeman, H.-D., Volkens, A., Bara, J. Tanenbaum, E. (eds 2001) Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates For Parties, Electors, and Governments. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 1945 98.
9. Cain, B., Dalton, R. Scarrow, S. (eds 2003) Democracy Transformed. Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
10. Carmines, E. G. (1991 The Logic of Party Alignments Journal of Theoretical Politics, 3 (1 65 80.
11. Carmines, E. G. Stimson, J. A. (1986 On the Structure and Sequence of Issue Evolution American Political Science Review, 80 (3 901 20.
12. Carmines, E. G. Stimson, J. A. (1993 On the Evolution of Political Issues in W. Riker (ed Agenda Formation. Ann Arbor MI : University of Michigan Press, pp. 151 68.
13. Cole, A. (2005 Old Right or New Right? The Ideological Positioning of Parties of the Far Right European Journal of Political Research, 44 (2 203 30.
14. Cook, T. E. (1998) Governing with the News. The News Media as a Political Institution. Chicago IL : University of Chicago Press.
15. Dalton, R. (2002) Citizen Politics. New York : Chatham House.
16. Dalton, R. Wattenberg, M. (eds 2000) Parties without Partisans. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
17. Downs, A. (1957) An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York : Harper and Row.
18. Dush, R. M. Strøm, K. (2004 Liberty, Authority, and the New Politics: A Reconsideration Journal of Theoretical Politics, 16 (3 233 62.
19. Franzmann, S. Kaiser, A. (2006 Locating Political Parties in Policy Space Party Politics, 12 (2 163 88.
20. Gabel, M. Huber, J. D. (2000 Putting Parties in Their Place: Inferring Party Left-Right Ideological Positions from Party Manifestos Data American Journal of Political Science, 44 (1 94 113.
21. Green-Pedersen, C. (2006 Long-Term Changes in Danish Party Politics? From Class Competition to Issue Competition Scandinavian Political Studies, 29 (3 221 37.
22. Green-Pedersen, C. (2007 The Conflict of Conflicts in Comparative Perspective: Euthanasia as a Political Issue in Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands Comparative Politics, 39 (3 273 91.
23. Gunther, R., Montero, J. R. Linz, J. (eds 2002) Political Parties; Old Concepts, New Changes. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
24. Hainsworth, P. (ed 2000) The Politics of the Extreme Right. London : Pinter.
25. Janda, K., Harmel, R. Edens, C. G. P. (1995 Changes in Party Identity Party Politics, 1 (2 171 96.
26. Karvonen, L. Kuhnle, S. (eds 2001) Party Systems and Voter Alignment Revisited. London : Routledge.
27. Kitschelt, H. (1995) The Radical Right in Western Europe. Ann Arbor MI : University of Michigan Press.
28. Klingemann, H. D. (2005 Political Parties and Party System in J. Thomassen (ed The European Voter. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 22 63.
29. Knutsen, O. (2004) Social Structure and Party Choice in Western Europe. Comparative Longitudinal Study. London : Macmillan.
30. Laver, M. (ed 2001) Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors. London : Routledge.
31. Laver, M. Budge, I. (1992 Measuring Policy Distances and Modelling Coalition Formation in M. Laver I. Budge (eds Party Policy and Government Coalitions. London : Macmillan, pp. 15 40.
32. Laver, M. Garry, J. (2000 Estimating Policy Positions from Political Texts American Journal of Political Science, 44 (3 619 35.
33. Lawson, K. Poguntke, T. (2005) How Political Parties Respond. London : Routledge.
34. Luther, K. R. Müller-Rommel, F. (eds 2002) Political Parties in the New Europe. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
35. McCombs, M. Zhu, J.-H. (1995 Capacity, Diversity, and Volatility of the Public Agenda: Trends from 1954-1994 Public Opinion Quarterly, 59 (4 495 517.
36. Mair, P. (2001 The Green Challenge and Political Competition: How Typical is the German Experience? German Politics, 10 (1 99 116.
37. Mair, P. (2002 In the Aggregate: Mass Electoral Behaviour in Western Europe, 1950-2000 in H. Keman (ed Comparative Democratic Politics. London : Sage, pp. 122 42.
38. Mair, P., Müller, W. Plasser, F. (eds 2004) Political Parties and Electoral Change. London : Sage.
39. Marks, G. Wilson, C. (2000 The Past into the Present: A Cleavage Theory of Party Response to European Integration British Journal of Political Science, 30 (4 433 59.
40. Meguid, B. M. (2005 The Role of Mainstream Party Strategy in Niche Party Success American Political Science Review, 99 (3 347 59.
41. Newton, K. (2006 May the Weak Forces be With You: The Power of the Mass Media in Modern Politics European Journal of Political Research, 45 (2 209 34.
42. O'Neill, M. (1997) Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe. Aldershot : Ashgate.
43. Oskarson, M. (2005 Social Structure and Party Choice in J. Thomassen (ed The European Voter. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 84 103.
44. Pelizzo, R. (2003 Party Positions or Party Directions? Western European Politics, 26 (2 67 89.
45. Pennings, P. Keman, H. (2002 Towards a New Methodology of Estimating Party Policy Positions Quality and Quantity, 36 (1 55 79.
46. Petrocik, J. (1996 Issue-Ownership in Presidential Elections with a 1980 Case Study American Journal of Political Science, 40 (3 825 50.
47. Riker, W. (1996) The Strategy of Rhetoric. Campaigning for the American Constitution. New Haven CT : Yale University Press.
48. Robertson, D. (1976) A Theory of Party Competition. London : Wiley.
49. Rohrschneider, R. (2002 Mobilizing versus Chasing: How do Parties Target Votes in Election Campaigns? Electoral Studies, 21 (3 367 82.
50. Rydgren, J. (2002 Radical Right Populism in Sweden. Still a Failure, But for How Long? Scandinavian Political Studies, 25 (1 27 56.
51. Saglie, J. (1998 A Struggle for the Agenda Party Politics, 4 (3 347 66.
52. Schattschneider, E. E. (1960) The Semi-Sovereign People. A Realist's Guide to Democracy in America. New York : Holt.
53. Shannon, C. Weaver, W. (1949) A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana IL : University of Illinois Press.
54. Talshir, G. (2002) The Political Ideology of Green Parties. London : Palgrave.
55. Thomassen, J. (ed 2005) The European Voter. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
56. Van der Brug, W. (1999 Voters' Perceptions and Party Dynamics Party Politics, 5 (2 147 69.
57. Van der Brug, W. (2001 Analysing Party Dynamics by Taking Partially Overlapping Snapshots in M. Laver (ed Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors. London : Routledge, pp. 115 32.
58. Van Holsteyn, J., Irwin, G. den Ridder, J. (2003 In the Eye of the Beholder: The Perception of the List Pim Fortuyn and the Parliamentary Elections of May 2002 Acta Politica, 38 (1 69 87.
59. Völkens, A. (2001 Manifesto Research since 1979: From Reliability to Validity in M. Laver (ed Estimating the Policy Positions of Political Actors. London : Routledge, pp. 33 49.
60. Webb, P., Farrell, D. M. Holliday, I. (eds 2002) Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Countries. Oxford : Oxford University Press.