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dc.contributor.authorPelizzo, Riccardo
dc.contributor.editorPeter Mair
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:24:37Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:24:37Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.modified2007-10-23T07:15:04Z
dc.identifier.issn01402382
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/15383
dc.description.abstractThe use of the party manifesto data (PMD) to identify parties' position in the political space provides a rather distorted picture of the Italian party system. Three possible explanations for this are explored, namely that the Italian party system is exceptional, that there are flaws in the data and there might be flaws in the methodology The article argues that none of these explanations is fully satisfactory and advances the hypothesis that the PMD left-right scores do not indicate parties' positions but instead indicate parties' direction, that is how (and how much) parties move to adjust to changing political conditions and to remain competitive. Statistical analyses, performed to test the validity of the directional interpretation of the left-right scores, support this new interpretation.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrank Cass & Company Ltd
dc.publisher.placeAbingdon, UK
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom67
dc.relation.ispartofpageto89
dc.relation.ispartofedition2003
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalWest European Politics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume26
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.titleParty Positions or Party Direction? An Analysis of Party Manifesto Data
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2003
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPelizzo, Riccardo


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