Conflict Mobilisation or Problem-Solving?: Issue Competition in Western Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367710828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 254 str.

Lorenzo de Sio; Romain Lachat

Opis

This volume casts a new light on electoral developments that have affected Western Europe in recent years, pointing to the key distinction between problem solvers and conflict mobilizers.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Research design: from issues to goals  2. The 2017 Dutch general election: how small parties campaigned more strategically  3. Campaigning in an unprecedented election: issue competition in the French 2017 presidential election  4. The United Kingdom 2017 election: polarisation in a split issue space  5. It’s no longer the economy, stupid! Issue yield at the 2017 German federal election  6. Parties’ issue strategies on the drawing board: the 2017 Austrian case  7. The 2018 Italian general election: party strategies in a changing political space  8. Ideology, problem-solving, and conflict mobilization  9. The proof of the pudding: issue yield at the ballot box