Shifting Positions: Party Positions and Political Manifestos in Costa Rica

Continuities and Changes in Party Positions Towards Europe in Italian Parties: An Examination of Parties’ Manifestos

Explaining Party Positions on Decentralization

Debates about decentralization raise cultural questions of identity and economic questions of redistribution and efficiency. Therefore the preferences of statewide parties regarding decentralization are related to their positions on the economic and cultural ideological dimensions. A statistical analysis using data from thirty-one countries confirms this: parties on the economic right are more ...

Estimating Policy Positions from Political Texts

D eriving reliable and valid estimates of the policy positions of key actors is fundamental to the analysis of political competition. Various systematic methods have been used to do this, including surveys of voters, politicians, and political scientists, and the content analysis of policy documents. Each method has advantages and disadvantages but, for both theoretical and pragmatic reasons, p...

Politics without Positions: Party Loyalty and Voting Behavior in Malawi

In most countries there are meaningful issues over which politicians and voters take varying positions. Countless scholarly approaches to understanding political or voting behavior engage such policy preferences as a salient political cleavage, the most common of which places political actors on a left-right spectrum defined by opposing views on the role of government or the notions of liberal ...

Shifting Subject Positions Experts and Lay People in Public Dialogue

Public dialogue about science, technology and medicine is an established part of the activities of a range of charities, private corporations, governmental departments and scientific institutions. However, the extent to which these activities challenge or bridge the lay–expert divide is questionable. Expertise is contested, by the public and the community of scholars who study and/or facilitate...