Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / ECPR Press
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978-1-907301-49-0 • Paperback • May 2013 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Thomas M Meyer is a researcher at the Department of Government, University of Vienna, and a member of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES) research team. Previously, he was a PhD student at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim, and received his PhD in Political Science in 2010. His research focuses on political parties, party competition, voting behaviour and coalition governance and has been published or is accepted for publication by Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Party Politics and West European Politics.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Part I. Party Competition and Time
Chapter One: Constraints on Shifting Party Policy Platforms 3
Chapter Two: Linking Parties and Time 15
Chapter Three: Measuring Party Policy Shifts 29
Part II. Voter Perception and Party Policy Shifts
Chapter Four: The Voters’ Perception of Party Policy Shifts 57
Chapter Five: Causes and Consequences of Voters’ Perceived Party Policy Shifts 75
Chapter Six: Voter Perceptions of Party Policy Shifts: An Empirical Analysis 97
Chapter Seven: How Voter Perceptions Affect Party Policy Shifts: An Empirical
Analysis 135
Part III. Parties’ Internal Structure and Party Policy Shifts
Chapter Eight: How Parties’ Internal Structure Affect Party Policy Shifts 169
Chapter Nine: Parties’ Internal Structure and Party Policy Shifts: An Empirical
Analysis 179
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter Ten: Conclusions and Directions for Future Research 209
Appendices 217
Bibliography 233
Index 259