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Lawrence Ezrow
Researcher at University of Essex
Publications - 44
Citations - 3348
Lawrence Ezrow is an academic researcher from University of Essex. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Representation (politics). The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 39 publications receiving 2957 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence Ezrow include University of California, Santa Barbara & VU University Amsterdam.
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Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different from Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties' Policy Shifts, 1976-1998
TL;DR: The authors report the results of statistical analyses of the relationship between parties' policy positions, voters' policy preferences, and election outcomes in eight Western European democracies from 1976 to 1998 that suggest that the answer to both questions isno.
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Understanding Change and Stability in Party Ideologies: Do Parties Respond to Public Opinion or to Past Election Results?
TL;DR: The authors examined whether parties adjust their ideology in response to shifts in public opinion, and past election results, and found that these effects are only significant in situations where public opinion is clearly shifting away from the party's policy positions.
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Mean voter representation and partisan constituency representation: Do parties respond to the mean voter position or to their supporters?
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-national analysis based on observations from Eurobarometer surveys and parties' policy programs in 15 countries from 1973 to 2002 was conducted to investigate whether political parties respond to shifts in the preferences of their supporters.
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Is Anybody Listening? Evidence That Voters Do Not Respond to European Parties’ Policy Statements During Elections
TL;DR: This article found no evidence that voters adjust their Left-Right positions or their partisan loyalties in response to shifts in parties' campaign-based policy statements during election campaigns and found that voters do respond to their subjective perceptions of the parties' positions.
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Citizen Satisfaction With Democracy and Parties’ Policy Offerings
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between the variation of policy choices on offer in a party system and citizen satisfaction and found that when party choices in a political system are more ideologically proximate to the mean voter position in left-right terms, overall citizen satisfaction increases.