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What Makes Parties Adapt to Voter Preferences? The Role of Party Organization, Goals and Ideology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2017

Daniel Bischof  and
Markus Wagner
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niche partiesparty competitionparty organizationparty responsiveness
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 391 - 401
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© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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University of Zurich (email: [email protected]); University of Vienna (email: [email protected]). We thank Jim Adams, Simon Bornschier, Moritz Marbach, Thomas Meyer, Roman Senninger and the participants of the University of Zurich publication seminar for excellent feedback on earlier drafts of this article. We would also like to thank Jim Adams, Lawrence Ezrow and Garrett Glasgow for sharing their data and analysis files with us. The excellent feedback from the three anonymous reviewers significantly helped us to improve the quality of this article. All remaining errors are our own. Replication data sets are available in Harvard Dataverse at https://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1AI3TL and online appendices are available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123417000357.

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