nad a22 4500 551327995 20181213060123.0 cr unu---uuuuu 181213e201810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-159604 doi 10.1016/j.electstud.2018.08.012 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:159604 320 ddc Abou-Chadi Tarik Electoral competition, political risks, and parties' responsiveness to voters' issue priorities [Elektronische Daten] [Tarik Abou-Chadi] restrictedAccess eu-repo This article demonstrates how parties' issue responsiveness depends on the degree of electoral competition that they are facing as well as the salience of the issue on the party system agenda. While a growing literature on issue competition has presented empirical evidence on what parties and when they choose riding the wave strategies, we still lack an encompassing framework of why parties sometimes respond to voters' issue priorities and sometimes not. Taking into account the trade-offs between party supporters' priorities and those of the electorate as a whole this paper presents such a framework. It argues and empirically demonstrates that increasing levels of electoral competition as well as higher salience of issues on the party system agenda make parties more responsive to the priorities of the electorate as a whole at the cost of the priorities of their supporters. Institute of Political Science zora political science and international relations zora Electoral Studies 55:99-108 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159604/1/ZORA159604.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159604/1/ZORA159604.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 100 1- Abou-Chadi Tarik ZORA 773 0- Electoral Studies 55:99-108 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article restrictedAccess