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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 686-697 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Party Politics |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 17 Feb 2017 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
Recent research on political attitudes has emphasized that coalition preferences determine electoral choices, prompting scholars to investigate the sources of coalition preferences. While it is not surprising that coalition preferences are strongly informed by spatial considerations, several studies have drawn attention to additional nonideological factors. Relying on this insight, the present study aims to systematically investigate the nonideological or valence component of coalition preferences. In order to decompose attitudes into their principal ideological and nonideological components, we apply a Bayesian unfolding model to coalition sympathy ratings. We find that coalitions differ strongly with regard to their valence component. This surplus cannot be reconstructed as a linear combination of the coalitions’ constituent party valences and is predominantly structured by campaign valence.
Keywords
- Coalition preferences, government competence, ideology, multiparty systems, valence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Sociology and Political Science
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In: Party Politics, Vol. 24, No. 6, 01.11.2018, p. 686-697.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The nonideological component of coalition preferences
AU - Nyhuis, Dominic
AU - Plescia, Carolina
N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund under grant S10903-G11.
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - Recent research on political attitudes has emphasized that coalition preferences determine electoral choices, prompting scholars to investigate the sources of coalition preferences. While it is not surprising that coalition preferences are strongly informed by spatial considerations, several studies have drawn attention to additional nonideological factors. Relying on this insight, the present study aims to systematically investigate the nonideological or valence component of coalition preferences. In order to decompose attitudes into their principal ideological and nonideological components, we apply a Bayesian unfolding model to coalition sympathy ratings. We find that coalitions differ strongly with regard to their valence component. This surplus cannot be reconstructed as a linear combination of the coalitions’ constituent party valences and is predominantly structured by campaign valence.
AB - Recent research on political attitudes has emphasized that coalition preferences determine electoral choices, prompting scholars to investigate the sources of coalition preferences. While it is not surprising that coalition preferences are strongly informed by spatial considerations, several studies have drawn attention to additional nonideological factors. Relying on this insight, the present study aims to systematically investigate the nonideological or valence component of coalition preferences. In order to decompose attitudes into their principal ideological and nonideological components, we apply a Bayesian unfolding model to coalition sympathy ratings. We find that coalitions differ strongly with regard to their valence component. This surplus cannot be reconstructed as a linear combination of the coalitions’ constituent party valences and is predominantly structured by campaign valence.
KW - Coalition preferences
KW - government competence
KW - ideology
KW - multiparty systems
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DO - 10.1177/1354068817690933
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