Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
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]
Abstract:
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.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
anti-elite rhetoric; ideology; Europe; expert survey; polarization; valence issues
Elenco autori:
L. Curini
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