Responding to Voters or Responding to Markets? Political Parties and Public Opinion in an Era of Globalization

Ezrow, Lawrence; Hellwig, Timothy

doi:10.1111/isqu.12129

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“…However, other recent research on party responsiveness to citizen preferences has shown that in certain contexts parties are less responsive. Ezrow and Hellwig (2011), for example, demonstrate that, as parties become further integrated into world markets, they become less responsive to the electorate. These findings also concur with Wu¨st and Schmitt's (2007) analysis of Euromanifestos from the 1999 EP elections.…”

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How salient is Europe? An analysis of European election manifestos, 1979–2004

Spoon

2012

European Union Politics

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What determines how 'European' a party's manifesto is? This article examines the salience of European issues in national parties' Euromanifestos during the 1979-2004 period. I argue that domestic politics, including voter, party, and party system factors, influence the European content of a party's Euromanifesto. Using data from the Euromanifestos Project for 14 member states, I find that the differential emphasis on European issues in the national party system, intra-party dissent on European integration, voter ambivalence on membership of the European Union, and party type all influence the salience of European issues in a party's manifesto. These findings have important implications for understanding both how parties use manifestos to manipulate the political agenda and the dimensions of contestation in elections to the European Parliament.

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How salient is Europe? An analysis of European election manifestos, 1979–2004

Spoon

2012

European Union Politics

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“…4 The implication 4 Note, however, the large literature on how market openness affects public policy and whether it constrains the actions of governments (e.g., Garrett 1998;Swank 2002;Clark 2003;Basinger and Hallerberg 2004;Steinmo 2010), a more recent literature that notes effects of open markets on party positions (e.g., Haupt 2010;Adams, Haupt, and Stoll 2009;Ward, Ezrow, and Dorussen 2011;Ezrow and Hellwig 2014), and some studies pointing to external influences on parties'…”

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Party Policy Diffusion

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Do parties learn from or emulate parties in other political systems? This research develops the argument that parties are more likely to employ the heuristic of learning from and emulatingforeign successful (incumbent) parties. Spatial-econometric analyses of parties’ election policies from several established democracies robustly confirm that political parties respond to left-right policy positions of foreign political parties that have recently governed. By showing that parties respond to theseforeign incumbent parties, this work has significant implications for our understanding of party competition. Furthermore, we contribute to the literature on public policy diffusion, as we suggest that political parties are important vehiclesthroughwhich public policies diffuse.

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“…If public opinion moves right, for example, parties' preferences will follow (see e.g. Adams et al, 2004Adams et al, , 2006Ezrow and Hellwig, 2014). Adams et al (2004) specifically find that parties are more responsive to voters when their preferences shift away from the party's policy positions.…”

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“…Adams et al, 2004Adams et al, , 2006Ezrow and Hellwig, 2014). Importantly, however, responsiveness is not uniform.…”

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Differentiated party response: The effect of Euroskeptic public opinion on party positions

Williams

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2015

European Union Politics

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Do parties respond to voters' preferences on European integration in elections to the European Parliament? In this article, we argue that political parties do respond to voters' Euroskeptic attitudes, but that party type conditions responsiveness. In particular, we posit that larger parties are more responsive and that governing parties are less responsive to aggregate Euroskepticism. To test our theoretical expectations, we use data from the Euromanifestos Project and European Election Study from 1989 to 2009 for 252 parties across 26 European Union Member States. Our findings have important implications for understanding democratic representation in the European Union and the second-order nature of elections to the European Parliament.

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Responding to Voters or Responding to Markets? Political Parties and Public Opinion in an Era of Globalization

Cited by 91 publications

References 58 publications

How salient is Europe? An analysis of European election manifestos, 1979–2004

How salient is Europe? An analysis of European election manifestos, 1979–2004

Party Policy Diffusion

Differentiated party response: The effect of Euroskeptic public opinion on party positions

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