Are Party Activists the Party Extremists? The Structure of Opinion in Political Parties
Are Party Activists the Party Extremists? The Structure of Opinion in Political Parties
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党内积极分子是党内极端分子吗？
DOI：
10.1111/1467-9477.00003
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
A. Skare
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作者：
H. M. Narud;A. Skare
本文在重新审视梅的曲线差距定律的基础上，分析了政党舆论的结构。梅认为，选民、政党领导人和政党活动人士参与政治的动机不同，因此选民和领导人在问题上的立场比政党活动人士更为温和。本文以Kitschelt对May定律的推广为基础，认为曲线差异虽然不是普遍现象，但在特定情况下必然会发生。我们关注的是体制中分裂冲突的程度，基切尔特本人发现，这个变量对于解释基层领导人中的政党激进主义至关重要。使用挪威多党制作为一个测试案例，我们提出，激进的政党活动家之间的条件是不同的政策层面的相对突出性。根据对议员、党员和选民进行的与1993年大选有关的调查所作的经验分析对我们的主张几乎没有什么支持。
In re-examining May’s law of curvilinear disparity, this article analyzes the structure of opinion of political parties. May suggests that voters, party leaders and party activists have diierent incentives to participate in politics, and therefore voters and leaders have more moderate positions on issues than party activists. This article is based on the extensions of May’s law made by Kitschelt, who argues that curvilinear disparities, although not general phenomena, are bound to occur in speci¢c circumstances. We have focused on the level of cleavage con£ict in the system, the variable that Kitschelt himself found to be critical for explaining party radicalism among sub-leaders. Using the Norwegian multiparty system as a test case, we propose that radicalism among party activists is conditioned by the relative saliency of diierent policy dimensions. The empirical analysis, which is based on surveys of MPs, party members and voters in connection with the general election of 1993, gives very little support to our proposition.