Intra-Party Agenda Setting in Advanced Industrialized Democracies

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

How do institutional structures influence the agenda and support for the agenda? Specifically how do institutions, such as the electoral system, devolved powers, and committee structures, alter the formation of a party’s agenda? Departing from large amounts of excellent work in inter-party agenda setting, this panel turns its focus within the party. This session investigates intra-party dynamics to understand how party agenda setting changes based on a variety of factors using text analysis and original data sources, at both the regional and national levels, comparatively and with single case studies of advanced industrial democracies. This panel effectively represents the diversity of the discipline by combining a range of junior scholars to senior faculty.

Sub Unit

• Division 14: Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies

Individual Presentations

• Updated Agenda: Shift in Political Discourse with New Zealand’s Electoral Change - Christine A Sylvester, University of Strathclyde; Julia Maynard, University of Michigan

• Devolved Disagreements and Electoral Success - Zachary David Greene, University of Strathclyde

• Shedding Light to the Secret Garden of Politics: Candidate Viability and Gender - Maarja Luhiste, Newcastle University

Chair

• Christine A Sylvester University of Strathclyde

Discussants

• Jae-Jae Spoon University of Pittsburgh

• Christine A Sylvester University of Strathclyde