Party positions or party direction? An analysis of Party Manifesto Data
Party positions or party direction? An analysis of Party Manifesto Data
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党的立场还是党的方向？
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2003
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Riccardo Pelizzo
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作者：
Riccardo Pelizzo
使用政党宣言数据（PMD）来确定政党在政治空间中的位置，提供了一个相当扭曲的意大利政党制度的画面。三种可能的解释，这是探讨，即意大利政党制度是例外，有缺陷的数据，并可能有缺陷的方法。本文认为，这些解释都是不完全令人满意的，并提出了假设，PMD左，右分数并不表明政党的立场，而是表明政党的方向，即如何（以及多少）政党采取行动，以适应不断变化的政治条件，并保持竞争力。统计分析，进行测试的有效性的方向解释的左，右分数，支持这种新的解释。
The use of the party manifesto data (PMD) to identify parties' position in the political space provides a rather distorted picture of the Italian party system. Three possible explanations for this are explored, namely that the Italian party system is exceptional, that there are flaws in the data and there might be flaws in the methodology. The article argues that none of these explanations is fully satisfactory and advances the hypothesis that the PMD left–right scores do not indicate parties' positions but instead indicate parties' direction, that is how (and how much) parties move to adjust to changing political conditions and to remain competitive. Statistical analyses, performed to test the validity of the directional interpretation of the left–right scores, support this new interpretation.