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Replication data for: Issue engagement in election campaigns: the impact of electoral incentives and organizational constraints

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Title Replication data for: Issue engagement in election campaigns: the impact of electoral incentives and organizational constraints
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27716
 
Creator Meyer, Thomas M.
Wagner, Markus
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description It is easier for voters to make informed electoral choices when parties talk about the same issues. Yet parties may decide against such ‘issue engagement’. We hypothesize that issue engagement between parties is more likely (a) when the similarity of their policy positions means that both parties have clear electoral incentives to talk about the same topics and (b) when parties face few organizational constraints in terms of campaign resources. Our empirical analysis of 2,453 press releases by Austrian parties shows that ideological proximity and party resources affect the level of issue engagement. These findings suggest that issue engagement is less likely precisely where it is needed most, which has important implications for understanding the democratic quality of election campaigns.
 
Date 2014-10-30