Cross-cutting issues, intraparty dissent and party strategy: The issue of European integration in the House of Commons
Cross-cutting issues, intraparty dissent and party strategy: The issue of European integration in the House of Commons
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跨领域问题、党内异议和政党战略：下议院的欧洲一体化问题
DOI：
10.1177/1465116513509307
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Eitan Tzelgov
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作者：
Eitan Tzelgov
立法反对党什么时候会利用楔子问题攻击政府？在本文中，我重点关注欧洲一体化问题及其对 1992-1997 年英国下议院政党策略的影响。综合利用投票和言论数据，分析显示政府和反对派在这个问题上存在分歧，因此反对派无法利用它。我认为，这是由于问题的复杂性，即它把再分配的分歧与物质前后的分歧结合在一起，而党的领导人无法压制这种分歧。结果表明，在政党战略建模中考虑政府和反对派凝聚力的重要性。此外，投票和修辞数据的结合增加了我们对欧洲党派意识形态的维度和结构的理解。我们赢得的选举比英国任何政党都多，因为我们是英国最团结、最坚定的政党。同一时期，工党是最分裂、最无纪律的政党。这就是为什么他们输了、输了、输了、再输。 Norman Fowler 爵士，保守党主席，1992 年党代表大会。
When do legislative opposition parties use wedge issues to attack the government? In this article, I focus on the issue of European integration and its impact on party strategy in the 1992–1997 British House of Commons. Utilizing both voting and rhetorical data, the analysis reveals that both government and opposition were split on the issue, and thus the opposition was not able to use it. This, I argue, stems from the complexity of the issue, i.e. the fact that it combines redistributive cleavages with pre- and post-material ones, which cannot be suppressed by party leaders. The results demonstrate the importance of taking into consideration both the government’s and the opposition’s cohesion in modeling party strategies. Further, the combination of voting and rhetorical data adds to our understanding of the dimensionality and structure of partisan ideologies in Europe. We have won more elections than any party in Britain because we are the most united and the most determined party in Britain. Over the same period Labour has been the most divided and the most undisciplined party. That is why they have lost, and lost, and lost, and lost again. Sir Norman Fowler, Conservative Party Chairman, 1992 Party Conference.