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Citizens in democracies complain that political parties’ positions on major issues are too ambiguous for them to confidently understand. Why is party position ambiguity so common? Are party positions ambiguous because political parties fail in forming clear policies or because they deliberately blur...

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Έκδοση: University of Michigan Press 2022
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-585192022-09-24T03:52:46Z Rationality of Irrationality Han, Kyung Joon Party politics, Party position, Party competition, Position blurring, Position ambiguity, Ambiguous party position, Vague party position, Western Europe, Social democratic party, Radical right-wing party, Issue competition, Issue emphasis, Issue salience, Polarization, Party supporter division, Issue competence, Immigration, Responsible party model, Personalization of politics, Manual worker bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPL Political parties Citizens in democracies complain that political parties’ positions on major issues are too ambiguous for them to confidently understand. Why is party position ambiguity so common? Are party positions ambiguous because political parties fail in forming clear policies or because they deliberately blur their positions? Rationality of Irrationality argues that political parties are motivated to strategically blur their position on an issue when they struggle with a certain disadvantage in the issue. Specifically, political parties present an ambiguous position when their own supporters are divided in their stances on the issue. A political party also blurs position stances when voters do not acknowledge that the party has the ability and integrity to solve problems related to the issue. Political parties blur their position in these cases because ambiguous party positions divert voters’ attention from the issue. Voters support a political party whose policy positions on major issues are close to their own stances. However, voters cannot confidently and exactly estimate party positions on an issue when they are only ambiguous. 2022-09-23T15:28:35Z 2022-09-23T15:28:35Z 2022 book 9780472075539 9780472055531 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58519 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780472902910.pdf https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-472-07553-9-highres.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-472-07553-9-frontcover.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-472-07553-9-thumb.jpg University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.11989496 10.3998/mpub.11989496 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 9780472075539 9780472055531 245 open access
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description Citizens in democracies complain that political parties’ positions on major issues are too ambiguous for them to confidently understand. Why is party position ambiguity so common? Are party positions ambiguous because political parties fail in forming clear policies or because they deliberately blur their positions? Rationality of Irrationality argues that political parties are motivated to strategically blur their position on an issue when they struggle with a certain disadvantage in the issue. Specifically, political parties present an ambiguous position when their own supporters are divided in their stances on the issue. A political party also blurs position stances when voters do not acknowledge that the party has the ability and integrity to solve problems related to the issue. Political parties blur their position in these cases because ambiguous party positions divert voters’ attention from the issue. Voters support a political party whose policy positions on major issues are close to their own stances. However, voters cannot confidently and exactly estimate party positions on an issue when they are only ambiguous.
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