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Adams, James. and Somer, Zeynap. "Do Parties Adjust Their Policies in Response to Rival Parties’ Policy Shifts? Spatial Theory and the Dynamics of Party Competition in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152291_index.html>

Adams, J. and Somer, Z. , 2006-08-31 "Do Parties Adjust Their Policies in Response to Rival Parties’ Policy Shifts? Spatial Theory and the Dynamics of Party Competition in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152291_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: Although spatial theory posits that political parties adjust their policies in response to rival parties’ policy strategies, there is little comparative research that evaluates this hypothesis. Using the Comparative Manifesto Project data, we analyze the relationship between parties’ policy programmes and the policies of their opponents in twenty-five postwar democracies. We conclude that parties tended to shift their policy positions in the same direction that their opponents had shifted their policies at the previous election; furthermore, parties were particularly responsive to policy shifts by other members of their “ideological families,” i.e. leftist parties responded to other leftist parties while right-wing parties responded to right-wing parties. Our findings have important implications for spatial models of elections, for the dynamics of party systems, and for political representation.

Religion, Science, Philosophy and Politics: A Theoretical Sketch Integrating Elements of Systems Dynamics, Humanistic Psychology, Cybernetics, Value Theory, and Democratic Philosophy, Illustrated with Some Current Foreign and Domestic Policy Problems

Changing Party System Polarization, Election Rules and Ideological Congruence

Party Politics During the Democratization Period and the Foreign Policy Change: The Case of Taiwan, 1986-2000