The article investigates whether there are specific spatial conditions that make a party more likely to pay closer attention to anti-elite rhetoric than to alternative issues in its political confrontation with other parties. The article first treats anti-elitism as a non-policy vote-winning strategy that could be valued positively by a broad class of voters across ideological lines (its 'quasi-valence' attribute). It is then shown that the incentive of a party to embrace such a strategy grows as the ideological space separating that party from the other(s) shrinks. This hypothesis receives empirical support from the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey Data.
The spatial determinants of the prevalence of antielite rhetoric across parties / L. Curini. - In: WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS. - ISSN 0140-2382. - (2019 Oct 25). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1080/01402382.2019.1675122]
The spatial determinants of the prevalence of antielite rhetoric across parties
L. Curini
2019
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The article investigates whether there are specific spatial conditions that make a party more likely to pay closer attention to anti-elite rhetoric than to alternative issues in its political confrontation with other parties. The article first treats anti-elitism as a non-policy vote-winning strategy that could be valued positively by a broad class of voters across ideological lines (its 'quasi-valence' attribute). It is then shown that the incentive of a party to embrace such a strategy grows as the ideological space separating that party from the other(s) shrinks. This hypothesis receives empirical support from the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey Data.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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