The Contours of Divisions within Political Parties: Hierarchy or Factions?

• In Event: Party Manifestos and Their Implications

Brief Overview

The results of unsupervised and supervised learning techniques show that internal divisions within political parties based on hierarchy are less consequential than those based on ideological factions.

Authors

• Ann-Kristin Kölln, Aarhus University

• Jonathan Polk, University of Gothenburg