Manifesto research since 1979

Volkens, Andrea

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“…By definition, the obtained information comes from an official document that was approved by the party: it is not even unusual that the majority of the party members and affiliates have formally to approve the document before the election. Electoral programmes are therefore considered as valid indicators of the positions of parties regarding certain domains of public policy at a given point in time (Volkens 2001).…”

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The Impact of Government Participation and Prospects on Party Policy Preferences in Belgium

Dandoy¹

2013

Gov. & oppos.

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This article analyses the impact of government prospects and government participation on party policy preferences. Comparing the content of manifestos of governing and opposition parties in Belgium during three decades, I observed that the relationship of a party to the act of governing influences the content of its manifesto. In that sense, party preferences are not only driven by ideology and vote-seeking arguments but are part of a larger party strategy: parties adapt their electoral platform when they are in government or are willing to enter into it. The conclusion of the article also discusses the literature on government formation. Such literature hypothesizes that parties that are ideologically similar would form a coalition. However, results for the Belgian case demonstrate that parties strategically adapt their electoral platform when wanting to enter the government. Coalitions are made up of parties with similar policy preferences, not because they 'are' alike but beca...

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The Impact of Government Participation and Prospects on Party Policy Preferences in Belgium

Dandoy¹

2013

Gov. & oppos.

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“…In an analysis of the election manifestos of socialdemocratic parties in a large number of European countries, Volkens found a clear shift to the right over time and increasing attention for topics related to the Third Way approach (decentralization, government efficiency, social justice, etc.). 32 This shift could be a catastrophe for the representation of working-class people's interests: it implies that their guarantee of substantive representation is diminishing, since labour parties are no longer exclusively focused on their particular social group. Their interests come into competition with other interests.…”

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Blue collars striking the Red Flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946–2007

Wauters

2012

Labor History

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“…To assess the claims about party system dimensionality deduced from the literature above, we combine survey data from the ESS (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) and manifesto data (Volkens et al, 2016). 1 All countries that can be classified as fully ‘democratic’ according to the five-level ordinal measure from the ‘Varieties of Democracy’ (V-Dem) project are included (Lindberg, 2016).…”

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“…On the basis of these considerations, we measure dimensionality using data from the MARPOR project (Volkens et al, 2016). MARPOR identifies singular statements in parties’ election manifestos and classifies them into 56 issue categories.…”

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Party system dimensionality and perceived quality of representation

Reinermann

Barbet

2019

Party Politics

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Spatial analogies are ubiquitous as a concept structuring political conversation. Assuming that political parties play an important role in shaping the make-up of the political space and that depending on their combination of issue emphases they give rise to more or fewer dimensions of political competition, this article tests whether party system dimensionality leads to a trade-off implied in the relevant literature: when parties constrict the political space too much, certain preferences may not be represented anymore, leaving citizens dissatisfied with the system. At the same time, multidimensional political spaces may become too difficult to navigate and leave citizens confused. Results from hierarchical regression models (based on European Social Survey and manifesto data), however, show that such a trade-off does not exist. Higher dimensionality does not confuse voters. At the same time, there is evidence that it increases satisfaction with the political system, albeit only for the most sophisticated citizens.

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Manifesto research since 1979

Cited by 48 publications

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The Impact of Government Participation and Prospects on Party Policy Preferences in Belgium

The Impact of Government Participation and Prospects on Party Policy Preferences in Belgium

Blue collars striking the Red Flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946–2007

Party system dimensionality and perceived quality of representation

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