scholarly journals Intraparty and Interparty Variations of Issue Salience in Southern Parties

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 245-275
Author(s):  
Shannon L. Bridgmon
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
State Party ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Party Platforms ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Elected Office

Political parties have many purposes, but their primary goal is to capture elected office (Aldrich 1995). They also serve as quasi-public organizations that mobilize the electorate and organize political debate. Previous research (Budge and Farlie 1977, 1983; Petrocik 1981, 1996) suggests that parties will emphasize issues that provide them an electoral or policy advantage. However, little exists to determine if this pattern extends to state and regional politics. This study measures the levels of importance southern political parties attach to various issues, as expressed through each state party’s platform. State party platforms of southern states in effect during 2009 will serve as the data for this study. After determining levels of issue salience variations among and within southern states, this study confirms that parties emphasize issues to maximize electoral prospects.

The Politicization of Immigration and Integration at the Subnational Level: Electoral Campaigns in Ontario and Quebec

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Audrey Gagnon ◽  
Lindsay Larios
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Social Resource ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Party Platforms ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Canadian Provinces

Abstract Open political debate on immigration and integration policies (IIP) among Canadian political parties has been relatively limited. As Canada's immigration and integration systems become more decentralized, what about political debates about IIP in Canadian provinces? This article examines how IIP evolved across time by focusing on political parties’ claims, frames and pledges in party platforms and newspapers, using the cases of Ontario and Quebec. In Ontario, IIP were primarily framed as an economic and social resource. However, following the event of 9/11, new frames began to be introduced, contributing to a heightened salience and polarization. In contrast to Quebec, however, this politicization was not sustained. In Quebec, IIP were only marginally a matter of debate until the mid-2000s. This changed following the Hérouxville event, as these topics became salient, and dominant frames of immigration as economic and social resources were challenged by those of immigration as economic and cultural threats.

How Indian Parties Connect Voters to Leaders

Asian Survey ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 969-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kushner
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Party Platforms

How do political parties in developing countries, without access to accurate polling data, understand their voters? I examine the role that various sources of information play in political party platforms, and how the method of data collection affects parties’ policy and political efforts, primarily by using interview data from 2012 and 2013 with workers from four leading parties in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. I theorize the role of party workers as a key conduit for information between party leaders and the voters they represent.

scholarly journals The contingent character of interest groups–political parties’ interaction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Laura Chaqués-Bonafont ◽  
Camilo Cristancho ◽  
Luz Muñoz-Márquez ◽  
Leire Rincón
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Number Of Parties ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Western Democracies

Abstract This article examines the conditions under which interest groups interact with political parties. Existing research finds that interest group–political party interactions in most western democracies have become more open and contingent over time. The close ideological and formal organisational ties that once characterised these relations have gradually been replaced by alternative, more pragmatic forms of cooperation. However, most of this research stresses the importance of the structural factors underpinning these links over time and across countries, but sheds little light on the factors driving short-term interest group–party interactions. Here, by drawing on survey data on Spanish interest groups obtained between December 2016 and May 2017, this article seeks to fill this gap by taking into account party status, issue salience and a group’s resources as explanatory variables. It shows that mainstream parties are the primary targets of interest groups, that groups dealing with salient issues are more likely to contact political parties and that the groups with most resources interact with a larger number of parties.

scholarly journals The Micro-Foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership: The Reciprocal Effects of Citizens’ Issue Salience and Party Attachments

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Neundorf ◽  
James Adams
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Reciprocal Effects ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Issue Ownership ◽  
Party Support ◽  
Micro Foundations

While previous research on the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue attitudes and their party support emphasize citizens’ issue positions, political competition revolves equally around issue salience – that is, debates over which issue areas political parties should prioritize. Using multi-wave panel survey data from Germany and Great Britain, this study analyzes the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and their party support, and concludes that citizens’ issue priorities both influence and are influenced by their party attachments and, moreover, that these effects are linked to parties’ long-term associative issue ownership. This effect is strongest among supporters of a small issue-orientated niche party, the German Greens.

scholarly journals Making the absent present: Political parties and emigrant issues in country of origin parliaments

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Østergaard-Nielsen ◽  
Irina Ciornei
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Substantive Representation ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Electoral Incentives ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legislative Processes

A growing number of countries have granted their emigrant citizens the right to vote in homeland elections from afar. Yet, there is little understanding of the extent to which emigration issues are visible in the subsequent legislative processes of policymaking and representation. Based on an original data set of parliamentary activities in Spain, Italy, France and Romania, this article analyses why political parties pay attention to emigrants. To that end, we propose a conceptual framework which draws on both theories of issue salience and substantive representation. Bridging these two frameworks allows us bring in both parties (salience) and constituencies (representation) in the analysis of the linkage between electorates and parliaments at a transnational level. We test a series of hypotheses and find that parties are more likely to focus on emigration issues the stronger their electoral incentives and in the context of electoral systems allowing the emigrants to elect special emigrant representatives.

scholarly journals PERLIDUNGAN JUSTICE COLLABORATOR TINDAK PIDANA KORUPSI

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jupri Jupri
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
United Nations ◽  
State Party ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Special Protection ◽  
Crime Of Corruption

ABSTRACT                The guaranted of protection to a Justice Collaborator is stipulated in Article 32 of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, 2003) as ratified as Law Number 7 Year 2006 stipulates that each State Party is obliged to provide physical and psychological protection against witnesses and experts in the disclosure of criminal acts of corruption. As the development progresses of corruption disclosure in Indonesia, the arrangement of Justice Collaborator is then started to be regulated explicitly in Law Number 31 Year 2014 on Protection of Witness and Victim.               Although physical, legal and special protection guarantees against the Justice Collaborator already exist. In fact, in the disclosure of a crime of corruption committed crime, a witness of the perpetrator who cooperates with law enforcement gets bullied until threats are killed. For example in the disclosure of corruption cases involving a number of politicians Political Parties in Indonesia. Keywords: Justice Collaborator, Protection, Corruption 

The Local Determinants of Representation: Party Constituency Associations, Candidate Nomination and Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Cross ◽  
Scott Pruysers
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Elected Office ◽  
Local Party

AbstractIt is well established that political parties play a key role as gatekeepers to elected office. This article explores the local determinants of a diverse candidate pool. In particular, we seek to uncover the district- or riding-specific party factors that are related to women's participation in the parties’ candidate nomination stages. That is, why do some nomination races in a party have no women contestants, while others have many? Using data from an original survey of party constituency association presidents, as well as extensive nomination data from Elections Canada, we demonstrate that a number of local factors are related to the presence of women contesting a party's nomination. Local party associations with a woman serving as president, as well as associations that hold earlier and longer nominations, are significantly more likely to see a woman enter the contest. The results are important since they call attention to what parties do at the grassroots level, as well as highlight practical solutions for parties seeking to have more diversity in their candidate pool.

Quiet Politics of Employment Protection Legislation? Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition, and the Regulatory Welfare State

2020 ◽  
Vol 691 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-222
Author(s):  
Linda Voigt ◽  
Reimut Zohlnhöfer
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Electoral Competition ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Established Democracies

Political parties and party competition have been important factors in the expansion and retrenchment of the fiscal welfare state, but researchers have argued that regulatory welfare is not part of political debate among parties. We explore this claim theoretically, and then empirically examine it in the case of employment protection legislation (EPL) in twenty-one established democracies since 1985. EPL is a mature and potentially salient instrument of the regulatory welfare state that has experienced substantial retrenchment. We test three prominent mechanisms of how electoral competition conditions partisan effects: the composition of Left parties’ electorates, the strength of pro-EPL parties, and the emphasis put on social justice by pro-EPL parties. We find that the partisan politics of EPL is conditioned by electoral competition under only very specific circumstances, namely when blame sharing becomes possible in coalitions between EPL supporters.

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