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View article: Does Media Framing of Election Results Affect Whether Voters Perceive Parties as Election Winners or Losers?
Does Media Framing of Election Results Affect Whether Voters Perceive Parties as Election Winners or Losers? Open
This article examines how media framing of election results affects voter perceptions of election winners and losers. We conceive of media framing as equivalency framing because the very same election result can be framed positively or neg…
View article: Replication Data for: Social group appeals in party rhetoric: Effects on policy support and polarization
Replication Data for: Social group appeals in party rhetoric: Effects on policy support and polarization Open
Can parties and politicians increase support for their policy positions by adding appeals to social groups? Social groups provide simple cues that heuristically help voters to decide whether they support a policy. We argue that the effect …
View article: How do Voters Form Perceptions of Party Positions?
How do Voters Form Perceptions of Party Positions? Open
Political debates are structured by underlying conflict dimensions, such as left-right and economic and cultural ideology, which form the basis for voter choice and party competition. However, we know little about how voters arrive at perc…
View article: Rebuilding the coalition ship at sea: how uncertainty and complexity drive the reform of portfolio design in coalition cabinets
Rebuilding the coalition ship at sea: how uncertainty and complexity drive the reform of portfolio design in coalition cabinets Open
In the government formation process, coalition partners make decisions about the inner workings of their future government. However, whether the initial allocation of competencies has the desired effects is uncertain, and deals may therefo…
View article: Replication Data for: How do voters form perceptions of party positions?
Replication Data for: How do voters form perceptions of party positions? Open
Political debates are structured by underlying conflict dimensions such as left-right and economic and cultural ideology, and these form the basis for voter choice and party competition. However, we know little about how voters arrive at p…
View article: Coalition Mood in European Parliamentary Democracies
Coalition Mood in European Parliamentary Democracies Open
The success and longevity of coalition governments depends on the ability to keep conflicts between coalition members at bay. The risk of such conflicts is often assessed by drawing on proxy measures, such as the ideological heterogeneity …
View article: Party contestation and news visibility abroad: The 2019 European Parliament election from a pan-European perspective
Party contestation and news visibility abroad: The 2019 European Parliament election from a pan-European perspective Open
We ask whether and why European political parties receive election news coverage abroad and investigate this phenomenon by combining theoretical stipulations regarding the politicisation of European integration and the horizontal Europeani…
View article: Replication Data for: Coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies
Replication Data for: Coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies Open
Data and code to replicate the measure, tables and figures used in "Coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies"
View article: Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems Open
When reporting on election results, the media declare parties as election ‘winners’ or ‘losers’, which has important consequences for voter perceptions and government formation. This article investigates news coverage of parties’ electoral…
View article: AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Facebook Pages 2013 (SUF edition)
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Facebook Pages 2013 (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES dataset on party Facebook pages contains information on parties’ Facebook posts during the six weeks of election campaign for the Austrian general election in 2013. Data collection took place in …
View article: AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Newspaper Ads 2017 (SUF edition)
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Newspaper Ads 2017 (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES dataset on party newspaper ads 2017 contains data on advertisements published in Austria's leading newspapers (Der Standard, Die Presse, Heute, Kleine Zeitung, Kronen Zeitung, Kurier, Österreich,…
View article: AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Newspaper Ads and Campaign Posters 2013 (SUF edition)
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Newspaper Ads and Campaign Posters 2013 (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES dataset on party newspaper ads and campaign posters contains data on advertisements published in fifteen daily and weekly Austrian newspapers within the last 18 weeks before the 2013 national ele…
View article: AUTNES Content Analysis of ORF TV Confrontations 2013 (SUF edition)
AUTNES Content Analysis of ORF TV Confrontations 2013 (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES dataset on TV confrontations contains data collected from fifteen debates between pairs of top candidates in the 2013 national election campaign. The debates were televised by the Austrian nation…
View article: AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases (OTS) 2002 (SUF edition)
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases (OTS) 2002 (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES coding of party press releases covers all press releases that were issued by parties gaining at least two percent of the votes in the national elections in 2002. The coding procedure applies the …
View article: AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases (OTS) 2006 (SUF edition)
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases (OTS) 2006 (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES coding of party press releases covers all press releases that were issued by parties gaining at least two percent of the votes in the national elections in 2006. The coding procedure applies the …
View article: Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments?
Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments? Open
Government formation in multi‐party systems often requires coalition negotiations and finding common ground among coalition partners. Supporters of parties involved in the government formation process face a trade‐off when evaluating such …
View article: Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda
Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda Open
While a rich literature addresses legislative agenda-setting in multiparty democracies, relatively little is known how members of parliament disseminate the legislative agenda beyond the parliamentary floor. Drawing on content analyses of …
View article: AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Manifestos: Cumulative File (SUF edition)
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Manifestos: Cumulative File (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES dataset on party manifestos covers the manifestos of the relevant parties that competed in the Austrian national elections 2002-2017. All natural sentences within the manifestos are part of the d…
View article: Issue Engagement Across Members of Parliament: The Role of Issue Specialization and Party Leadership
Issue Engagement Across Members of Parliament: The Role of Issue Specialization and Party Leadership Open
Studies on political communication in multiparty democracies usually focus on political parties as unitary actors and how they engage with each other in election campaigns. We deviate from this approach and study how issue engagement (i.e.…
View article: The Political Dynamics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies
The Political Dynamics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies Open
The design of government portfolios – that is, the distribution of competencies among government ministries and office holders – has been largely ignored in the study of executive and coalition politics. This article argues that portfolio …
View article: From the European debt crisis to a culture of closed borders: how issue salience changes the meaning of left and right for perceptions of the German AfD party
From the European debt crisis to a culture of closed borders: how issue salience changes the meaning of left and right for perceptions of the German AfD party Open
Political parties are traditionally described as being on a left-right spectrum according to their economic policies. However, socio-cultural dynamics also contribute to the public perception of parties. Looking at the case of Alternative …
View article: Replication Data for: The political dynamics of portfolio design in European democracies
Replication Data for: The political dynamics of portfolio design in European democracies Open
The design of government portfolios, i.e. the distribution of competencies among government ministries and office holders, constitutes a largely ignored aspect of executive and coalition politics. In this manuscript, we argue that portfoli…
View article: The changing meaning of left and right: supply- and demand-side effects on the perception of party positions
The changing meaning of left and right: supply- and demand-side effects on the perception of party positions Open
Political conflict is often described in terms of "left" and "right" even though societal conflicts stem from various sub-dimensions such as economic and cultural issues. We argue that individuals map parties’ left-right positions based on p…
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