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In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 342-344
ISSN: 0105-0710
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In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 342-344
ISSN: 0105-0710
In: West European politics, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 336-21
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: West European politics, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 336-356
ISSN: 0140-2382
World Affairs Online
In: Seeberg , H B , Slothuus , R & Stubager , R 2017 , ' Do Voters Learn? Evidence that Voters Respond Accurately to Changes in Political Parties' Policy Positions ' , West European Politics , vol. 40 , no. 2 , pp. 336-356 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2016.1245902
A premise of the mass–elite linkage at the heart of representative democracy is that voters notice changes in political parties' policy positions and update their party perceptions accordingly. However, recent studies question the ability of voters accurately to perceive changes in parties' positions. The study advances this literature with a two-wave panel survey design that measured voters' perception of party positions before and after a major policy shift by parties in the government coalition in Denmark 2011–2013. Two key findings extend previous work. First, voters do indeed pay attention to parties when they visibly change policy position. Second, voters update their perceptions of the party positions much more accurately than would have been expected if they merely relied on a 'coalition heuristic' as a rule-of-thumb. These findings imply that under some conditions voters are better able to make meaningful political choices than previous work suggests.
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In: West European politics, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 336-356
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: West European politics, S. 1-21
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: American political science review, Band 107, Heft 1, S. 57-79
ISSN: 1537-5943
Competition is a defining element of democracy. One of the most noteworthy events over the last quarter-century in U.S. politics is the change in the nature of elite party competition: The parties have become increasingly polarized. Scholars and pundits actively debate how these elite patterns influence polarization among the public (e.g., have citizens also become more ideologically polarized?). Yet, few have addressed what we see as perhaps more fundamental questions: Has elite polarization altered the way citizens arrive at their policy opinions in the first place and, if so, in what ways? We address these questions with a theory and two survey experiments (on the issues of drilling and immigration). We find stark evidence that polarized environments fundamentally change how citizens make decisions. Specifically, polarization intensifies the impact of party endorsements on opinions, decreases the impact of substantive information and, perhaps ironically, stimulates greater confidence in those—less substantively grounded—opinions. We discuss the implications for public opinion formation and the nature of democratic competition.
In: American political science review, Band 107, Heft 1, S. 57-79
ISSN: 0003-0554
World Affairs Online
In: Politica, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 544-562
ISSN: 2246-042X
In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 544-562
ISSN: 0105-0710
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 74, Heft 3, S. 530-550
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: Communication research, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 400-425
ISSN: 1552-3810
A growing amount of research is devoted to the question of which individual and contextual variables enhance, limit, or obliterate news framing effects. However, the fundamental question whether framing effects vary depending on the issue at stake has not been addressed. Based on two experimental studies (total N = 1,821), this article investigates the extent to which framing effects differ in magnitude as well as process, depending on how important an issue is. The studies show that a high-importance issue yields no effects and a low-importance issue large effects. This moderating function of issue importance operates both at the contextual and at the individual levels. The implications for future framing effects research are discussed.
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 79, Heft 4, S. e93-e96
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: British journal of political science, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 581-597
ISSN: 1469-2112
Most research on political tolerance relying on the 'least-liked' group approach has painted a bleak picture of low and feeble levels of tolerance. An alternative approach, permitting an evaluation of the breadth of tolerance, is combined with the use of survey experiments to demonstrate that tolerance varies considerably across target groups. Specifically, the formation of tolerance judgements is shown to differ depending on a group's association with violent and non-democratic behaviour. Thus, tolerance is high and resilient towards groups that themselves observe democratic rights even if these groups are disliked or feared. The theory suggests that this is caused by norms of reciprocity and, contrary to extant research, this article shows that within the limits set by these norms, tolerance is strong. Adapted from the source document.