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Issue salience in regional party manifestos in Spain / Libbrecht, Liselotte; Maddens, Bart; Swenden, Wilfried; Fabre, Elodie

Libbrecht, Liselotte	Journal Article
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2009.

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This article analyses the dynamics of electoral competition in a multilevel setting. It is based on a content analysis of the party manifestos of the Spanish PP and PSOE in eight regional elections held between 2001 and 2003. It provides an innovative coding scheme for analysing regional party manifestos and on that basis seeks to account for inter-regional, intra-party and inter-party differences in regional campaigning. The authors have tried to explain the inter-regional variation of the issue profiles of state-wide parties in regional elections on the basis of a model with four independent variables: the asymmetric nature of the system, the electoral cycle, the regional party systems and the organisation of the state-wide parties. Three of their hypotheses are rejected, but the stronger variations in the regional issue profiles of the PSOE corroborate the assumption that parties with a more decentralised party organisation support regionally more diverse campaigning. The article concludes by offering an alternative explanation for this finding and by suggesting avenues for further research.

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Spain ; Manifestos ; Regional Party ; Regional Elections ; PSOE

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ID: 086138

Japanese lower house campaigns in transition: manifest changes or fleeting fads? / Koellner, Patrick

Koellner, Patrick	Journal Article
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2009.

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Electioneering for the Japanese Lower House has undergone significant changes in recent years. While voter mobilization strategies still figure prominently in the local-level campaigns of individual candidates, political parties increasingly use voter-chasing strategies at the national level. Such chasing strategies, whose manifestations in Japan have so far included the manifesto and the media-spin approach, target in particular the growing number of independent voters. The concurrence of elements of continuity and change in electioneering has led to a "hybridization" of Lower House election campaigns. The article examines this phenomenon in the light of newer conceptual and theoretical approaches to electoral politics in democratic settings.

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Japan ; Election Campaigning ; Mixed-Member Electoral System ; Voter Targeting ; Voter Mobilization ; Voter Chasing ;
Manifestos

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ID: 119593

Promises Promises: have the authors of the manifestos of the country's leading political parties made any effort to understand the real problems in the health and education sector? / Mustafa, Zubeida

Mustafa, Zubeida	Journal Article
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2013.

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Education ; Political Parties ; Health ; Social Problems ; Manifestos ; Election - 2013 ;
Pakistan - 1967-1977

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Right approach: the disonnect between party manifestos and civil society demands / Virani, Faiza

Virani, Faiza	Journal Article
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2013.

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Civil Society ; Political Parties ; Women's Rights ; Minority rights ; Good Governance ; PPP ;
PMLN ; Manifestos ; Electoral Process ; Election Approaches ; Human Right Commission of Pakistan ; Iran - Democracy - 1941-1953 ;
Pakistan - 1967-1977

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