Do Voters Follow? The Effect of Party Cues on Public Opinion During a Process of Policy Change

Nordø, Åsta Dyrnes

doi:10.1111/1467-9477.12187

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“…However, this phenomenon does not reflect every members' experience. For some, a change in the party's opinion does not necessarily lead to a shift in their personal opinion (Carsey and Layman 2006;Dejaeghere and Dassonneville 2017;Nordø 2021;Saeki 2019). It is this specific juncture that motivates my research.…”

Section: The Strength Of Partisanship Identitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Pressure to conform: Political self-censorship among co-partisans

Alqabandi

2023

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Recent surveys indicate most Americans are reluctant to share their political views on social media. This study examines how social identity and group composition shape self-censorship in a simulated social media setting. I recruited Democrats and Republicans (N=758) to complete a survey about their political views and randomized them into to chats to discuss a politically contentious issue with members of the other party or members from their own party. I find Democrats are more likely to disclose their opinions to Republicans than to fellow Democrats. Yet Republicans were no more likely to express their opinions to Democrats or Republicans. This research underscores the significance of political identity dynamics on the expression of minority views and uses a behavioral measure of self-censorship which may improve upon previous self-reported measures of self-censorship. My study thus contributes to ongoing debates with political sociology, social psychology, and the emerging field of computational social science.

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Section: The Strength Of Partisanship Identitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Pressure to conform: Political self-censorship among co-partisans

Alqabandi

2023

Preprint

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“…Party positions change over time, and voters often (Achen & Bartels, 2016), but not always follow (Nordø, 2020). Evidence suggests that extreme ideological beliefs are more stable over time (Zwicker et al., 2020).…”

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The roots of Euroscepticism: Affective, behavioural and cognitive anti‐EU attitudes in Hungary

Bíró‐Nagy,

Szászi

2024

Sociology Compass

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This paper has put forward a new indicator based on the “ABC‐model” of attitudes designed to capture individual‐level Euroscepticism. We constructed a composite anti‐EU score based on affective, behavioural and cognitive sub‐indices. The study analyses data from a representative, countrywide Hungarian public opinion research. Looking for the drivers of anti‐EU attitudes, we took an integrative approach linking various theories of voting behaviour, Euroscepticism and populism studies. Our research showed that subjective well‐being significantly reduces anti‐EU attitudes. We found some empirical support for the “left behind thesis” in the Hungarian context, as severe economic grievances and fear of losing social status explained anti‐EU attitudes. Authoritarian traits turned out to be a major driver of Euroscepticism in Hungary. We proved that cosmopolitan values reduce affective and cognitive anti‐EU attitudes, but foreign experience and some international ties significantly correlated with anti‐EU stance. We confirmed that being a supporter of the governing Fidesz party and sharing culturally right‐wing political views significantly increase anti‐EU attitudes. We also revealed that partisanship's effect is strengthened by affective polarization and political interest.

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“…Nevertheless, party identification is not a necessary precondition for individuals to be persuaded by parties, as Guntermann (2017) has shown in the case of Spanish voters regarding the centreperiphery issue. These party cues are particularly likely to affect voters' opinions if an issue is considered salient (Nordø, 2021).…”

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The Asymmetrical Effect of Polarization on Support for Independence: The Case of Catalonia

Teruel

Barrio

2021

PaG

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The article analyses the consequences of elite polarization at the mass level in the centre-periphery dimension. We analyse the rapid rise in support for independence in Catalonia, focusing on the role of party competition around the centre-periphery cleavage. We argue that mainstream actors’ adoption of centrifugal party strategies with respect to the national question produced a polarizing dynamic in the party system that eventually caused voters’ attitudes regarding the centre-periphery issue to harden. Indeed, we posit that this increase in mass polarization was a consequence of party agency that subsequently helped to drive attitudes regarding independence. To test this hypothesis, we measure centre-periphery polarization (as perceived by voters) by adopting two different perspectives—inter-party distances (horizontal polarization) and party-voter distances (vertical polarization)—and then run logistic regressions to explain support for independence. The findings show an asymmetrical effect on polarization. While the centrifugal strategy implemented by Catalan regionalist parties paved the way for a radicalization of voters on the Catalan nationalist side, among voters for non-regionalist parties, attitudes towards independence were initially less conditioned by this polarization. The results provide evidence of the political effects of elite polarization.

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Do Voters Follow? The Effect of Party Cues on Public Opinion During a Process of Policy Change

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Pressure to conform: Political self-censorship among co-partisans

Pressure to conform: Political self-censorship among co-partisans

The roots of Euroscepticism: Affective, behavioural and cognitive anti‐EU attitudes in Hungary

The Asymmetrical Effect of Polarization on Support for Independence: The Case of Catalonia

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