Pubblicazioni scientifiche

Pubblicazioni scientifiche

Pubblicazioni scientifiche

BARTOLINI, S., CHIARAMONTE, A., & D’ALIMONTE, R. D. R. (2002). Maggioritario finalmente? Il bilancio di tre prove. In R. D’Alimonte & S. Bartolini (Eds.), Maggioritario finalmente? La transizione elettorale 1994-2001 (pp. 363–379). Bologn...

CHIARAMONTE, A. C. A. (2014). The Elections of 2013: A Tsunami with No Winners. In C. Fusaro & A. Kreppel (Eds.), Italian Politics. Still Waiting for the Transformation (pp. 45–63). NEW YORK: Berghahn Books.

D’Alimonte, R., Di Virgilio, A., & Maggini, N. (2013). I risultati elettorali: bipolarismo addio? In ITANES (Ed.), Voto amaro. Disincanto e crisi economica nelle elezioni del 2013 (pp. 17–32). Bologna: Il Mulino. Retrieved from https://www.muli...

To cite the article: Emanuele, V. (2023), 'Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)', European Journal of Political Research, DOI:10.1111/1475-6765.12608. The article, published on European Journal of Political Research, can be accessed here. Abstract Despite the huge amount of studies on cleavages, scholars have never elaborated a dynamic model to conceptualize and measure the stages of electoral development of the class cleavage and, specifically, the stage corresponding to its full electoral structuring. To fill this gap, by combining some key electoral properties of...

Parties in pluralist democracies face numerous contentious issues, but most models of electoral competition assume a simple, often one-dimensional structure. We develop a new, inherently multidimensional model of party strategy in which parties compete by emphasizing policy issues. Issue emphasis is informed by two distinct goals: mobilizing the party's core voters and broadening the support base. Accommodating these goals dissolves the position-valence dichotomy through a focus on policies that unite the party internally while also attracting support from the electorate at large. We define issue yield as the capacity of an issue to reconcile these criteria, and then operationalize it as a simple index. Results of multilevel regressions combining population survey data and party manifesto scores from the 2009 European Election Study demonstrate that issue yield governs party strategy across different political contexts.