Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021).

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI:10.1057/s41269-022-00274-3

Tom van der Meer, Alyt Damstra

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Abstract

Associative issue ownership (AIO) has proven its value in describing issue competition and explaining voting behavior. Yet, it is unclear whether and to what extent AIO also differentiates parties and influences vote choice in highly fragmented, multiparty systems. In such a context, parties must differentiate from many electoral competitors, which makes AIO worth pursuing. At the same time, obtaining unequivocal ownership may be a very difficult endeavor in the face of so many rivals. This paper aims to assess these questions empirically by employing the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2021 on a system with 17 elected parties (ENPP = 8). At the aggregate level, we find unequivocal issue ownership for 4 of the 14 issues under study. AIO of most other issues is contested, either by parties with very similar policy positions (within-block competition) or by parties with opposing positions (between-block competition). A final set of issues remain unclaimed. At the individual level, perceptions of issue ownership explain the composition of voters' party consideration sets (pre-elections) and their actual vote choice (post-elections). These impacts are stronger when voters associate the party with an issue they find important. We conclude that AIO perceptions are an important factor to consider when studying party dynamics and voting behavior in a context of highly fragmented multipartyism.

Supplementary information: The online version of this article (10.1057/s41269-022-00274-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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高度分散的多党背景下的关联问题所有权：荷兰（2021）

关联问题所有权（Associative issue ownership， AIO）在描述问题竞争和解释投票行为方面已经证明了它的价值。然而，在高度分散的多党制中，AIO是否以及在多大程度上也能区分政党并影响投票选择，目前尚不清楚。在这种背景下，政党必须区别于许多选举竞争者，这使得AIO值得追求。与此同时，面对如此多的竞争对手，获得明确的所有权可能是一项非常困难的努力。本文旨在通过采用荷兰议会选举研究2021对17个当选政党（ENPP = 8）的系统进行实证评估这些问题。在总体水平上，我们发现在所研究的14个问题中，有4个问题的问题所有权是明确的。大多数其他问题的AIO都有争议，要么是政策立场非常相似的政党（区块内竞争），要么是立场相反的政党（区块间竞争）。最后一组问题仍无人认领。在个人层面上，对问题所有权的看法解释了选民的政党考虑集（选举前）和他们的实际投票选择（选举后）的组成。当选民将政党与他们认为重要的问题联系在一起时，这些影响会更强。我们的结论是，在高度分散的多党制背景下，在研究政党动态和投票行为时，AIO感知是一个重要的考虑因素。补充信息：本文的在线版本（10.1057/s41269-022-00274-3）包含补充信息，请授权用户使用。

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