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Replication data for: Do Voters Respond to Party Manifestos or to a Wider Information Environment?

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Title Replication data for: Do Voters Respond to Party Manifestos or to a Wider Information Environment?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/24591
 
Creator James Adams
Lawrence Ezrow
Zeynep Somer-Topcu
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recent studies analyze how citizens update their perceptions of parties' Left-Right positions in response to new political information. We extend this research to consider the issue of European integration, and we report theoretical and empirical analyses that citizens do not update their perceptions of parties' positions in response to election manifestos, but that citizens' perceptions of parties' positions do track political experts' perceptions of these positions, and, moreover, that it is party supporters who disproportionately perceive their preferred party's policy shifts. Given that experts plausibly consider a wide range of information, these findings imply that citizens weigh the wider informational environment when assessing parties' positions. We also present evidence that citizens' perceptions of party position shifts matter, in that they drive partisan sorting in the mass public.
 
Subject Social Sciences
European integration
Voting behavior
 
Contributor Zeynep Somer-Topcu
 
Type Stata