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  • Party Direction: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective

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    Pelizzo, Riccardo
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    Pelizzo, Riccardo
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    The purpose of this article is to further our understanding of the directional nature of left-right scores. I suggest that a party's ability to modify its perceived position is conditional on whether parties adopt their manifestos to alter their perceived position and on whether voters are persuaded by parties' attempts to relocate in political space. As voters' knowledge of political parties is a major determinant of where parties are perceived to be located, new parties or parties with weak identities are more likely than old parties to modify their perceived positions, and for two reasons: they are neither willing ...
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    The purpose of this article is to further our understanding of the directional nature of left-right scores. I suggest that a party's ability to modify its perceived position is conditional on whether parties adopt their manifestos to alter their perceived position and on whether voters are persuaded by parties' attempts to relocate in political space. As voters' knowledge of political parties is a major determinant of where parties are perceived to be located, new parties or parties with weak identities are more likely than old parties to modify their perceived positions, and for two reasons: they are neither willing nor able to adopt an identity-based platform and their freedom to move in political space is not constrained by what voters know about them. The results of statistical analyses show that while Italian voters modified their perception of party positions in the light of party manifestos, this was not the case in the other countries under study, where parties had longer histories than their Italian counterparts.
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    Journal Title
    Party Politics
    Volume
    16
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068809339537
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 SAGE Publications. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Comparative Government and Politics
    Political Science
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/33689
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