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An Ever-Underinstitutionalized Party System? A Critical Case Test of Ideological Partisanship

Koo, Sejin - 2011

countries has not been directly tested. This paper tests for the impact of ideology on partisanship, using South Korea as a … than regional ties). By incorporating two different indicators of ideology at the same time – self-placed ideology as a … subjective indicator and issue ideology as a more objective indicator – I present strong evidence that the partisanship of this …

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Political Discussion in Italy between Mass Media and Ideology : Insights from the 2008 Election

Campus, Donatella - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of political discussion during the 2008 election campaign with a special focus on how frequently Italians talk about politics, how important they consider political discussion by comparison with other channels of information, and how congruent their discussion...

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Party System Polarization and Ideological Congruence : Causal Mechanisms

Powell, G. B - 2010

The ideological congruence between the median citizen and the government is shaped by various institutional features, especially the party system. The polarization of the party system has large and robust effects on ideological (in)congruence across a variety of political systems. As captured by...

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Money Makes the EU Go Round : The Objective Foundations of Conflict in the Council of Ministers

Bailer, Stefanie - 2010

Many examinations of the dimensions of conflict in the EU Council of Ministers focus on the ideological roots of contestation in the European Union. In this article, we examine for the voting records of the Council in general and five of its subunits (Agriculture, Fisheries, Financial Affairs,...

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Measuring Representation in Latin America : A Study of the Ideological Congruence between Parties and Voters

Otero, Patricia - 2010

In this paper we measure and explain the levels of ideological congruence between representatives and their represented in Latin America. The ideological congruence between political parties and their voters is an appropriate indicator of the responsiveness of the rulers to the demands of the...

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Citizen Perceptions of Candidate Ideology in the 2008 Election

Jacoby, William G. - 2010

This paper examines mass perceptions of candidate ideology during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. On the one hand …, ideology should provide a useful cue for citizens to sort out the differences among the contenders for the presidency. On the …. Similar processes could easily be occurring for ideology, as well. Therefore, the analysis below presents a model of …

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Ideological Distance Among Parties and Macroeconomic Outcomes

Hall, Michael G. - 2010

This paper attempts to provide a single framework for bridging the separate research programs on opportunistic and partisan business cycles. Ideological distance, the degree of distance between the government and opposition on a left-right ideological spectrum, arguably could provide more...

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From Positional to Valence Issues? Ideology, Leadership, Globalization, and Electoral Choice

Vowles, Jack - 2010

effects of ideology are reduced by globalization is still contestable. We explore our hypothesis with data from Module 3 of …

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Creative Synthesis : A Model of the Origins of Ideology

Noel, Hans - 2013

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