Radical Left Parties and Issue Salience

• In Event: Issue Salience and Party Strategies

Brief Overview

We estimate changes to Radical Left Parties’ expected vote shares as functions of changes in the salience of policy issues. We show that RLPs can make (modest) electoral gains when the issue of European integration increases in salience.

Authors

• Sofia Vasilopoulou, King's College London

• Sarah Wagner, Queens University Belfast

• Roi Zur, University of Essex