The time-varying relationship between economic globalization and the ideological center of gravity of party systems.

ABSTRACT: Does economic globalization influence the positioning of parties and, as a consequence, the ideological characteristics of party systems? Answering this question is important because we need to understand the constraints that parties face in formulating policies from which voters have to choose. In our paper, we take a systemic perspective and conceptualize a party system's ideological center of gravity as the outcome of interest. We define the center of gravity as the weighted mean position of all parliamentary parties in a country that represents the position to which parties gravitate. We start by formulating static hypotheses on the effect of imports and exports on the center of gravity and derive their underlying mechanisms. We further derive dynamic hypotheses stipulating varying eff

SUBMITTER: Rohlfing I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6392286 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature