How transnational party alliances influence national parties' policies

Senninger, Roman; Bischof, Daniel; Ezrow, Lawrence

doi:10.1017/psrm.2020.55

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“…44Senninger, Bischof, and Ezrow 2020 focus on the policy diffusion that occurs between parties belonging to the same EP party groups. We provide a theoretical account of cross-family variation.…”

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Social Democratic Party Exceptionalism and Transnational Policy Linkages

Schleiter¹,

Böhmelt²,

Ezrow³

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World Pol.

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Political parties learn from foreign incumbents, that is, parties abroad that won office. But does the scope of this cross-national policy diffusion vary with the party family that generates those incumbents? The authors argue that party family conditions transnational policy learning when it makes information on the positions of sister parties more readily available and relevant. Both conditions apply to social democratic parties. Unlike other party families, social democrats have faced major competitive challenges since the 1970s and they exhibit exceptionally strong transnational organizations—factors, the authors contend, that uniquely facilitate cross-national policy learning from successful parties within the family. The authors analyze parties’ policy positions using spatial methods and find that social democratic parties are indeed exceptional because they emulate one another across borders more than do Christian democratic and conservative parties. These findings have important implications for our understanding of political representation and of social democratic parties’ election strategies over the past forty years.

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Social Democratic Party Exceptionalism and Transnational Policy Linkages

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Ezrow³

et al. 2021

World Pol.

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“…Fourth, it is worth considering the source of national parties' positions on Social Europe. Senninger et al (2022) show that the European Parliament and its party groups may lead to party policy diffusion when national parties learn from their respective European Parliamentary party groups (see also Schleiter et al, 2021). As such, future studies could explore the extent to which national parties' positions on Social Europe is driven by their interactions within the European Parliament.…”

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Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations

2024

Soc Policy Adm

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How do national political parties vary in their views on Social Europe? I focus on an aspect that has received less attention despite its growing prevalence—EU regulations with ambitions to diminish social inequality to encourage social convergence among Member States. Since the Juncker Commission, the European Commission has become increasingly active in pursuing this aspect of Social Europe. Thus, understanding parties' positions on this aspect of Social Europe has become more important. However, current literature lacks measures of national party stances towards Social Europe, and explanations for these stances. Here, I use data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (2006, 2009, 2014 and 2019) to develop an indirect measure of party positions on Social Europe. Leveraging studies in party politics and EU politics, I propose that party families and national economic conditions may affect parties' positions on Social Europe. The analyses suggest substantial variation in parties' positions on Social Europe both within and across party families. The analyses also demonstrate that socialist and green parties support Social Europe most, whereas radical right parties support it least. Lastly, I do not find systematic evidence that national economic conditions influence parties' support for this aspect of Social Europe.

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“…If diffusion studies focus on parties, they are conceptualized as an intermediary factor that facilitates or filters the diffusion of policies (e.g., Butler et al, 2017). Only recently, parties have been assigned more fundamental roles in policy diffusion processes in as much as it is presumed that policy diffusion processes are linked to the formation of transnational party families (Senninger et al 2021;Wolkenstein et al, 2020).…”

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Theorizing policy diffusion: from a patchy set of mechanisms to a paradigmatic typology

Blatter

Portmann

Frowin

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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In recent decades, we have witnessed the diffusion of policy diffusion studies across many sub-disciplines of political science. Four mechanisms of policy diffusion-learning, competition, emulation and coercion-have become widely accepted as explanations for how policymaking processes and policy outcomes in one polity influence those in other polities. After pointing to major shortcomings of this inductively gained set of mechanisms, we present a theoretically more coherent typology that draws on key concepts from International Relations and Policy Studies. The four mechanisms we lay down consider rationalist and social constructivist approaches equally and they incorporate symmetric and asymmetric constellations. By further distinguishing between processes confined to one policy field and those arising from links across policy fields, we present a typology of eight theoretically consistent pathways of policy diffusion. Our framework enables the aggregation of knowledge and contributes to conceptual coherence in multi-methods research.

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How transnational party alliances influence national parties' policies

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Social Democratic Party Exceptionalism and Transnational Policy Linkages

Social Democratic Party Exceptionalism and Transnational Policy Linkages

Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations

Theorizing policy diffusion: from a patchy set of mechanisms to a paradigmatic typology

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