Ignore or Defuse? Avoidance Strategies in Party Competition

• In Event: Political Communication Strategies and Choices

Brief Overview

How do parties avoid wedge issues they would prefer not to compete on? This article uses text as data methods to answer this question on a central wedge issue in European politics: that of EU integration. Co-written with prof. Hobolt and Hagemann.

Author

• Tom Hunter, London School of Economics and Political Science