The multidimensional nature of party competition

Party Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 699-719

  Albright, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

ideological stance; industrialized democracies; left right classification; measurement; party change adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049240017     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068809345856     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Adams, James, Michael Clark, Lawrence Ezrow and Garrett Glasgow (2006) 'Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different From Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties' Policy Shifts, 1976-1998', American Journal of Political Science 50: 513-29.
2. Adock, Robert and David Collier (2001) 'Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research', American Political Science Review 95: 529-46.
3. Alvarez, R. Michael and John Brehm (1995) 'American Ambivalence Towards Abortion Policy: Development of a Heteroskedastic Probit Model of Competing Values', American Journal of Political Science 39: 1055-82.
4. Bartels, Larry (1986) 'Issue Voting under Uncertainty: An Empirical Test', American Journal of Political Science 30: 709-28.
5. Bartholomew, David J., Fiona Steele, Irini Moustaki and Jane I. Galbraith (2002) The Analysis and Interpretation of Multivariate Data for Social Scientists. Boca Raton: Chapman and Hall/CRC.
6. Benoit, Kenneth and Michael Laver (2006) Party Policy in Modern Democracies. London: Routledge.
7. Benoit, Kenneth, Michael Laver and Slava Mikhaylov (2009) 'Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions', American Journal of Political Science 53: 495-513.
8. Budge, Ian (1994) 'A New Spatial Model Theory of Party Competition', British Journal of Political Science 24: 443-67.
9. Budge, Ian and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (2001) 'Finally! Comparative Over-time Mappings of Party Policy Movements', in Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara and Eric Tanenbaum (eds) Mapping Policy Preferences, pp. 19-50. New York: Oxford University Press.
10. Budge, Ian, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara and Eric Tanenbaum (2001) Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments, 1945-1998. New York: Oxford University Press.
11. Budge, Ian, David Robertson and Derek Hearl (1987) Ideology, Strategy, and Party Change. New York: Cambridge University Press.
12. Campbell, James E. (1983) 'Ambiguity in the Issue Positions of Presidential Candidates: A Causal Analysis', American Journal of Political Science 27: 284-93.
13. Converse, Philip E. (1964) 'The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics', in David E. Apter (ed.) Ideology and Discontent, pp. 206-61. New York: Free Press.
14. Cox, Gary W. (1997) Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. New York: Oxford University Press.
15. Dahl, Robert A. (1989) Democracy and its Critics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
16. Downs, Anthony (1957) An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Brothers.
17. Efron, Bradley and Robert J. Tibshirani (1993) An Introduction to the Bootstrap. New York: Chapman & Hall/ CRC.
18. Franklin, Charles H. (1991) 'Eschewing Obfuscation? Campaigns and the Perception of US Senate Incumbents', American Political Science Review 85: 1193-214.
19. Franklin, Mark, Tom Mackie and Henry Valen (eds) (1992) Electoral Change: Responses to Evolving Social and Attitudinal Structures in Western Countries. New York: Cambridge University Press.
20. Fuchs, Dieter and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (1990) 'The Left-Right Schema', in M. Kent Jennings and Jan W. van Deth (eds) Continuities in Political Action. New York: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
21. Gabel, Matthew J. and John D. Huber (2000) 'Putting Parties in Their Place: Inferring Party Left- Right Ideological Positions from Party Manifestos Data', American Journal of Political Science 44: 94-103.
22. Hayes, Danny (2005) 'Candidate Qualities through a Partisan Lens: A Theory of Trait Ownership', American Journal of Political Science 49: 908-23.
23. Huber, John D. and G. Bingham Powell (1994) 'Congruence Between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy', World Politics 46: 291-326.
24. Huber, Evelyn and John D. Stephens (2001) Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
25. Inglehart, Ronald (1990) Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
26. Inglehart, Ronald and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (1976) 'Party Identification, Ideological Preference, and the Left-Right Dimension among Western Mass Publics', in Ian Budge, Ivor Crewe and Dennis Farlie (eds) Party Identification and Beyond. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
27. King, Gary, Michael Tomz and Jason Wittenberg (2000) 'Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation', American Journal of Political Science 44: 347-61.
28. Kitschelt, Herbert (1989) The Logics of Party Formation: Ecological Politics in Belgium and West Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
29. Kitschelt, Herbert (1994) The Transformation of European Social Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
30. Klingemann, Hans-Dieter (1995) 'Party Positions and Voter Orientations', in Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Dieter Fuchs (eds) Citizens and the State. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
31. Klingemann, Hans-Dieter, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara and Ian Budge (2007) Mapping Policy Preferences II: Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments in Central and Eastern Europe, European Union and OECD 1990-2003. New York: Oxford University Press.
32. Korpi, Walter and Joakim Palme (2003) 'New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization: Welfare State Regress in 18 Countries, 1975-1995', American Political Science Review 97: 425-46.
33. Laver, Michael J. and Ian Budge (1992) Party Policy and Government Coalitions. New York: St Martin's Press.
34. Laver, Michael J. and W. Ben Hunt (1992) Policy and Party Competition. New York: Routledge.
35. Laver, Michael J. and Norman Schofield (1990) Multiparty Governments: The Politics of Coalition in Europe. New York: Oxford University Press.
36. Lipset, Seymour Martin and Stein Rokkan (1967) Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives. New York: Free Press.
37. Ordeshook, Peter C. and Olga V. Shvetsova (1994) 'Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties', American Journal of Political Science 38: 100-23.
38. Page, Benjamin I. (1976) 'The Theory of Political Ambiguity', American Political Science Review 70: 742-52.
39. Petrocik, John R. (1996) 'Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study', American Journal of Political Science 40: 825-50.
40. Powell, G. Bingham (2000) Elections as Instruments of Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press.
41. Riker, William (1986) The Art of Political Manipulation. New Haven: Yale University Press.
42. Robertson, David. (1976) A Theory of Party Competition. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
43. Sellers, Patrick J. (1998) 'Strategy and Background in Congressional Campaigns', American Political Science Review 92: 159-71.
44. Shepsle, Kenneth A. (1972) 'The Strategy of Ambiguity: Uncertainty and Electoral Competition', American Political Science Review 66: 555-68.
45. Simmons, Beth A. (1999) 'The Internationalization of Capital', in Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, Gary Marks and John D. Stephens (eds) Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
46. Simon, Adam F. (2002) The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.