The Growing Importance of Issue Competition: The Changing Nature of Party Competition in Western Europe

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Path Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe (2013, neutral): “43 green-Pedersen 2007; Kayser and Wlezien 2011.”
Going green: Explaining issue competition on the environment (2014, background): “is important as electoral competition is increasingly structured by a diversity of policy issues rather than long-established societal cleavages (Franklin et al. 1992; Mair 1997; Dalton 1996; Dalton & Wattenberg 2000; Green-Pedersen 2007; De Vries 2013).”
Who sets the agenda and who responds to it in the Danish parliament? A new model of issue competition and agenda-setting (2010, methodology): “Studies of American presidential campaigns (Sigelman & Buell 2004; Damore 2005) unearth considerable issue overlap, as do studies of party families in Western Europe (Green-Pedersen 2007).”
Clarity of responsibility: How government cohesion conditions performance voting (2013, background): “…make it the only aspect of policy performance that voters care about.8 Several studies have shown that the public agenda has become more diversified in both the United States and Europe, and that economic issues are less dominant (McCombs & Zhu 1995; Hobolt & Klemmensen 2005; Green-Pedersen 2007).”