Negative Campaigning in Western Europe: Similar or Different?
Negative Campaigning in Western Europe: Similar or Different?
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西欧的负面运动：相似还是不同？
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2014
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A. Walter
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A. Walter
本文介绍了西欧议会选举中的政党如何利用负面竞选活动，并探讨他们的行为是否与美国总统竞选中的候选人不同。此外，它从理论上解释了这些国家的负面竞选活动之间的差异和相似之处。首先，这项比较研究有助于发展一个更普遍的理论，对负面竞选。其次，该研究提供了有趣的新数据，衡量了1980年至2006年期间德国、英国和荷兰31个政党在23次议会选举中使用负面竞选活动的情况。结果表明，没有迹象表明负面竞选活动有所增加，大多数攻击都是问题攻击。然而，这些国家之间的负面竞选活动的总体水平存在系统性差异，我们怀疑政党制度的类型可能是主要的解释因素。
This article describes how political parties in parliamentary election campaigns in Western Europe make use of negative campaigning and examines whether their behaviour differs from that of candidates competing in US presidential election campaigns. Furthermore, it theorises how the differences and similarities between negative campaigning in these countries can be explained. First of all, this comparative study adds to the development of a more general theory on negative campaigning. Second, the study presents interesting new data measuring the use of negative campaigning by 31 political parties in 23 parliamentary election campaigns in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands between 1980 and 2006. Results show that there are no signs of an increase in negative campaigning and that the majority of attacks are issue attacks. However, there are systematic differences in the overall level of negative campaigning between these countries and we suspect that the type of party system could be the main explanatory factor.