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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Wagner, Markus. "The salience of unusual issue preferences: the effect of relative policy positions on issue importance for parties in 23 countries" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 02, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p364035_index.html>

Wagner, M. , 2009-04-02 "The salience of unusual issue preferences: the effect of relative policy positions on issue importance for parties in 23 countries" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-11-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p364035_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper examines the salience for political parties of 'unusual' issue positions. These are positions where the party's views are more extreme or more centrist than its mean position on other issues. Parties should have an incentive to stress such unusual positions as they reflect a strategic effort to take up a noticeably different political stance. This incentive is not the same for all parties: unusual issue positions should be stressed more by parties that are small, compete in crowded party systems and are right-wing. I test my hypotheses for parties in 23 countries by using two expert surveys (Laver and Hunt, 1992; Benoit and Laver, 2006) for position measurement and the dataset of the Manifesto Research Group for salience measurement. I first consider the effect of positional unusualness on salience in a cross-sectional analysis for 1989 and 2003, respectively. A second analysis looks within parties and tests whether an increase in positional unusualness between 1989 and 2003 also led to an increase in issue salience. This paper contributes to the party literature by linking positional and salience approaches on party competition and by shedding light on parties’ strategic choices in choosing their platforms.

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