A Leader Has Two Faces: Using Party Leaders’ Speeches to Capture the Dynamics of Party Representation

• In Event: Partisanship, Legislator Behavior, and Electoral Representation

Brief Overview

How do parties balance the need to appease supporters and attract voters? We employ party leader speeches to illustrate this balancing throughout the entire electoral cycle. The results highlight such cycle as a predictor of party positions.

Authors

• Sara Binzer Hobolt, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Florence So, Lund University

• Robert Klemmensen, Lund University