Setting the agenda: Electoral competition, commitment of policy, and issuesalience

Authors
Glazer, A Lohmann, S
Citation
A. Glazer et S. Lohmann, Setting the agenda: Electoral competition, commitment of policy, and issuesalience, PUBL CHOICE, 99(3-4), 1999, pp. 377-394
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
PUBLIC CHOICE
ISSN journal
00485829 → ACNP
Volume
99
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
377 - 394
Database
ISI
SICI code
0048-5829(199906)99:3-4<377:STAECC>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
By committing policy, an incumbent in effect disowns an issue; when she mai ntains policy flexibility, the issue remains electorally salient. Electoral competition shapes political commitment decisions and collapses the multi- dimensional issue space into a low-dimensional space of electorally salient issues.