🆕 Voters at cross swords ⚔️ @walderm.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social analyse situations where the average voter and the party electorate don't align, using Swiss context to highlight how parties responses toward party #VoterPreferences compares to the median voter 🗳️ buff.ly/v4Ugd7E

Parties’ responsiveness to voters’ positions in a direct democratic setting | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Parties’ responsiveness to voters’ positions in a direct democratic setting

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Really happy to share this new open-access paper (with @nathaliegiger.bsky.social ) in the European Journal of Political Research: We revisit a core question in the study of party competition: Who do parties respond to when they take positions?

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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Parties’ responsiveness to voters’ positions in a direct democratic setting - https://cup.org/4sSGIgh - @walderm.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social #FirstView

In einem weiteren spannenden Beitrag in DeFacto zeigen Maxime Walder, Gaia Fieramosca, Nathalie Giger und Denise Traber, dass sich Wählende vor Abstimmungen selektiv informieren 🗳️🤳 Lies den Beitrag hier! 😊👇 www.defacto.expert/2025/08/04/s...

🚨 New paper out! Using data on direct democracy, the paper proposes an alternative estimation strategy of the ideological positions of Swiss municipalities in the party competition space. It’s open access in @spsr.bsky.social . Check it out 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Latent Ideological Positions of Swiss Parties and Subsets of the Population

Prominent theories of political representation consider ideology to be a central concept that links political elites and citizens. However, studies usually rely on different data and measures to oper...

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This article now has page numbers! 🤩 Using data from 28 countries between 1980 and 2021 I find that parties polarize during economic downturns. Further exploring the mechanisms, I show that they do so in reaction to changing voter priorities and grievances. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions

A well-studied hypothesis in the political economy literature is that economic globalisation leads to the convergence of economic policies because of increasing international constraints. However, ...

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