Conforming to the Dominant Discourse: Framing Distance and Multiparty Competition

Wardt, Marc-Paul Van de

doi:10.1080/01402382.2015.1039378

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“…In recent decades, the most important issues of this kind have been European integration and immigration (Van de Wardt et al., 2014: 987). Importantly, issue entrepreneurs have a larger ‘framing distance’ towards all other parties compared to mainstream parties (Van de Wardt, 2015: 841). Their positions on the issue in question are therefore very different from the political mainstream.…”

Section: Resolutions As Instruments For Position Takingmentioning

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Real scrutiny or smoke and mirrors: The determinants and role of resolutions of national parliaments in European Union affairs

Hoerner

2017

European Union Politics

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The role of national parliaments in scrutinizing their governments in European Union affairs has been at the forefront of debates on democratic accountability in the EU for the past decade. Resolutions are the legislative instruments most clearly associated with government control. This article finds that party political strategies, and especially the different constraints and incentives for mainstream/government parties and issue entrepreneurs on Europe, are the most important factors determining the activity of national parliaments in the form of resolutions on EU affairs. Issue Entrepreneurs are parties which are Eurosceptic and for which Europe is salient. Motions initiated by issue entrepreneurs are numerous but limited to criticizing the government and contain little technical detail, while the resolutions of mainstream government parties mostly support the government's position. Resolutions and motions in EU affairs are thus rather used as an instrument of 'position taking' than as a form of government control, but could still help to foster accountability by bringing EU issues and government policy to the citizens' attention.

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Section: Resolutions As Instruments For Position Takingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Real scrutiny or smoke and mirrors: The determinants and role of resolutions of national parliaments in European Union affairs

Hoerner

2017

European Union Politics

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“…Rather, parties converge in terms of the issues they emphasize (Dolezal et al, 2014; Sigelman and Buell, 2004). These studies, however, only examine whether parties discuss the same issues, not how they discuss these issues (Lipsitz, 2013; van de Wardt, 2015). Parties might be emphasizing similar issues because these are issues of concern to voters, but they may still avoid true dialogue by applying different frames.…”

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“…A number of studies have examined the determinants of party issue framing. Van de Wardt (2015) found that parties’ issue framing is determined by their office-seeking: Mainstream parties develop more similar frames compared to challenger parties, and electoral gains make parties use more similar frames. Helbling et al (2010) argue that membership of party families drives parties to favor some frames over others, as does prior government participation.…”

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“…Finally, we evaluate our theoretical framework through unique data, moving beyond the predominant approach of studying single issues or cases in real-life campaigns (e.g. Holian, 2004; Jerit, 2007; van de Wardt, 2015). While externally valid, this approach does not allow for systematic comparisons across issues, parties, and policy domains.…”

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Issue reframing by parties: The effect of issue salience and ownership

Lefevere

Sevenans²,

Walgrave³

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Party Politics

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Issue reframing occurs when parties, while addressing an issue, shift the frame toward other policy domains. The literature has found that party issue framing affects how voters think about issues, yet scholars remain largely in the dark as to when and how parties frame issues. The study at hand theorizes and investigates when and how parties reframe issues in their external communication. Drawing on novel Belgian data about parties’ official stances regarding a large number of policy issues combined with their verbal argumentation of why they took this exact position, we test a new theory about the drivers and mechanisms of issue reframing. We find that parties reframe issues in terms of policy domains that are both salient to the general public and that are salient to the party itself—meaning that it has a history of devoting attention to the policy domain and “owns” it.

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“…However, little attention has been devoted to the concept of frame overlap, i.e. when parties adopt similar frames (see similar concerns raised by Jerit, 2008 and van de Wardt, 2015).…”

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To what extent do political parties utilize similar frames?

Bjarnøe

2021

Party Politics

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How parties compete by utilizing frames in the public debate is not well understood. A widespread understanding is that parties tend to compete by talking past each other, i.e. when they utilize dissimilar frames. This article relies on a unique data set of parties’ framing of four individual policy questions over two decades in Denmark to examine frame overlap, i.e. when parties adopt similar frames. Results show that parties utilize similar and dissimilar frames in the public debate. However, a high degree of frame similarity was generally found across parliamentary blocs (between the leading mainstream party from each bloc, their leading junior coalition partner, and the two blocs) and most often a very high degree of overlap was found within parliamentary blocs (between the leading mainstream party and its junior coalition partner). This result suggests a need to rethink thoroughly how to understand and study interaction among parties utilizing frames.

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Conforming to the Dominant Discourse: Framing Distance and Multiparty Competition

Cited by 5 publications

References 58 publications

Real scrutiny or smoke and mirrors: The determinants and role of resolutions of national parliaments in European Union affairs

Real scrutiny or smoke and mirrors: The determinants and role of resolutions of national parliaments in European Union affairs

Issue reframing by parties: The effect of issue salience and ownership

To what extent do political parties utilize similar frames?

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