Setting the Agenda: Electoral Competition, Commitment of Policy, and Issue Salience.

B-Tier
Journal: Public Choice
Year: 1999
Volume: 99
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 377-94

Authors (2)

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

By committing policy, an incumbent in effect disowns an issue; when she maintains policy flexibility, the issue remains electorally salient. Electoral competition shapes political commitment decisions and collapses the multidimensional issue space into a low-dimensional space of electorally salient issues. Copyright 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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RePEc Handle
repec:kap:pubcho:v:99:y:1999:i:3-4:p:377-94
Journal Field
Public
Author Count
2
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