Comparative vote switching
- Large literatures focus on voter reactions to parties’ policy strategies, agency, or legislative performance. While many inquiries make explicit assumptions about the direction and magnitude of voter flows between parties, comparative empirical analyses of vote switching remain rare. In this article, we overcome three challenges that have previously impeded the comparative study of dynamic party competition based on voter flows: we present a novel conceptual framework for studying voter retention, defection, and attraction in multiparty systems, showcase a newly compiled data infrastructure that marries comparative vote switching data with information on party behavior and party systems in over 250 electoral contexts, and introduce a statistical model that renders our conceptual framework operable. These innovations enable first-time inquiries into the polyadic vote switching patterns underlying multiparty competition and unlock major research potentials on party competition and party system change.
Author details: | Denis Cohen, Werner KrauseORCiDGND, Tarik Abou-Chadi |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1086/726952 |
ISSN: | 0022-3816 |
ISSN: | 1468-2508 |
Title of parent work (English): | The journal of politics |
Subtitle (English): | a new framework for studying dynamic multiparty competition |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Place of publishing: | Chicago, IL |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2024/03/05 |
Publication year: | 2024 |
Release date: | 2024/05/23 |
Tag: | data and methods; multi-party systems; party competition; vote switching |
Volume: | 86 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 11 |
First page: | 597 |
Last Page: | 607 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |