Chap 11+12 Definitions Flashcards
Agenda setting
Selecting the policy issues to be given salience in public debate or legislation
Dispersion criterion
A criterion by which no party has clear advantage regarding an issue and all abandon that issue
Dominance criterion
A criterion by which the party with advantage emphasises an issue and other parties abandon it
Heresthetics
The art of selecting policy issues
Issue ownership
Party advantage on an issue from positive past performance
Party’s attraction area
The area of voters’ ideal points closer to the party
Position issue
Issues on which parties hold distant policy proposals
Rhetoric
The art of framing a policy proposal with values and arguments
Valence issue
Issue with broad consensus on which parties compete for credit
Voter’s curve of indifference
In multidimensional space, the set of policy positions at equal distance from the voter’s ideal point, as can be represented by a circumference
Win-set
The area including all potential electoral winners against the status quo
Fragmentation
Number of political parties weighted by their sizes; the opposite of “concentration”
Ideology
An encompassing simplification of a high number of issue policies
Left-right
Ideological representation of party policy positions on a spatial basis
Multi-party system
A system in which multiple parties obtain seats and share government
