The contingency of voter learning: how election debates influence voters’ ability and accuracy to position parties in the 2010 Dutch election campaign

The contingency of voter learning: how election debates influence voters’ ability and accuracy to position parties in the 2010 Dutch election campaign

Election campaigns are expected to inform voters about parties’ issue positions, thereby increasing voters’ ability to influence future policy and thus enhancing the practice of democratic government. We argue that campaign learning is not only contingent on voters’ characteristics and different sou...

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Main Authors: Van der Meer, Tom W.G., Walter, Annemarie, Van Aelst, Peter
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
Subjects:
Campaign effects
Issue learning
Policy positions
Election debates
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46616/

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