It’s My Party and I’ll Agree if I Want To: Explaining Member Perceptions of Internal Ideological Agreement Through Member, Party, and Country Traits. Purcell, N. L. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kansas, United States – Kansas, 2023. ISBN: 9798381429558 Publication Title: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 30818920
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Political party functioning and procedures have long been studied under what is known as the unitary actor assumption – that is, because parliamentary democracies tend to function around the central concept that the party or coalition in government uniformly votes in favor of an agreed upon set of policies and the party or parties out of government votes against them, parties can be safely assumed to be internally “unified.” However, due to a growing body of literature that suggests that issue salience is not as monolithic within parties as may have been previously thought, Steiner and Mader (2017) call for dropping this assumption when studying political party functioning. If this assumption is dropped, the ideas of party unity and intra-party heterogeneity come to the forefront of thinking about how political parties behave internally and allows for party unity to be further deconstructed into three facets: agreement, loyalty, and dissent (Hazan and Itzkovitch-Malka 2020). This project seeks to look in-depth at the agreement facet of what they term “party cohesion” by asking the question: What drives a party member’s ideological agreement with their own party? This project finds that there are influences at each level – member, party, and country – that potentially affect how much ideological disagreement a party member perceives with their party.
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	abstract = {Political party functioning and procedures have long been studied under what is known as the unitary actor assumption – that is, because parliamentary democracies tend to function around the central concept that the party or coalition in government uniformly votes in favor of an agreed upon set of policies and the party or parties out of government votes against them, parties can be safely assumed to be internally “unified.” However, due to a growing body of literature that suggests that issue salience is not as monolithic within parties as may have been previously thought, Steiner and Mader (2017) call for dropping this assumption when studying political party functioning. If this assumption is dropped, the ideas of party unity and intra-party heterogeneity come to the forefront of thinking about how political parties behave internally and allows for party unity to be further deconstructed into three facets: agreement, loyalty, and dissent (Hazan and Itzkovitch-Malka 2020). This project seeks to look in-depth at the agreement facet of what they term “party cohesion” by asking the question: What drives a party member’s ideological agreement with their own party? This project finds that there are influences at each level – member, party, and country – that potentially affect how much ideological disagreement a party member perceives with their party.},
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	author = {Purcell, Nicole L.},
	collaborator = {Rohrschneider, Robert},
	year = {2023},
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Publication Title: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
30818920},
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