Party Moderation and Politicians’ Ideological Rigidity  

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Sánchez-Cuenca, Ignacio

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Party Politics vol. 10 no. 3 (May 2004), page 325–342.
Topik: party competition
policy preferences
spatial models
Fulltext: 325PP103.pdf (138.94KB)

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Parties that in the past have defended radical positions sometimes decide to moderate, moving towards the median position. Moderation, however, is not the automatic response to electoral defeat. Some parties resist moderation for long periods of time. I suggest that in order to explain moderation (or lack of it), it is necessary to introduce some degree of ideological rigidity into the utility function of parties. Once we have ideological rigidity, several results follow. First, convergence to the median position cannot be an equilibrium even with complete information. Second, moderation is more likely the less the degree of ideological rigidity, the greater the ideological distance between the parties, and the smaller the distance between the moderating party and the median voter. Normally, when moderation is observed, it is due to the fact that the party tempers its ideological rigidity through organizational reforms or leadership renovation.

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