Are Voter Decision Rules Endogenous to Parties’ Policy Strategies? A Model with Applications to Elite Depolarization in Post-Thatcher Britain
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- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Politics
- Vol. 74 (1) , 262-276
Abstract
While spatial modelers assume that citizens evaluate parties on the basis of their policy positions, empirical research on American politics suggests that citizens’ party attachments often drive th...Keywords
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