Our analysis of party strategies is designed to elucidate how the behaviour of parties and candidates depends on the specific context in which they compete. There will be a special attempt to ascertain how party strategies affect voters’ choice as well as to determine how party strategies are themselves developed on the basis of anticipated voter behaviour (in connection with the prevailing electoral system).
We will focus on four aspects of party strategy:
- inter-party coordination
- campaign strategies
- mobilization
- candidate selection
Quantitative and qualitative analyses
The analysis will be based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative sources, most especially:
- information provided by the parties during election campaigns
- party manifestos,
- press releases,
- TV ads,
- party websites
- media coverage of the campaigns,
- party spending data (where available)
- as well as semi-structured interviews of party strategists.
Find out more about the upcoming milestones for the analysis of party strategies.
Team members
The party strategy component of the research project is under the joint direction of Professors Indridi Indridason and Matt Golder. The data collection for each country will be supervised by a two-member team.
- France: Martial Foucault (coordinator), Sona Golder
- Germany: Thomas Gschwend (coordinator), Ben Nyblade
- Switzerland: Hanspeter Kriesi (coordinator), Matt Golder
- Spain: Ignacio Lago (coordinator), Indridi Indridason
- Canada: William Cross (coordinator), Louis Massicotte
