Replication Data for: The Informational Role of Party Leader Changes on Voter Perceptions of Party Positions
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'According to spatial models of elections, citizen perceptions of party policy positions are a key determinant of voting choices. Yet recent scholarship from Europe suggests that voters do not adjust their perceptions to what parties advocate in their campaigns. We argue that voters develop a more accurate understanding of parties’ ideological position following a leadership change, and that is because a new leader increases the credibility of party policy offerings. Focusing on Western European parties in the 1979-2012 period, we show that having a new leader is a necessary condition for voters to more accurately perceive the left-right placements of opposition parties. For incumbent parties, on the other hand, voters do not use party platforms to form perceptions of party positions, regardless of whether the leader is new or veteran. Ou' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["spatial models","voter perceptions","party leader","party manifestos","Western Europe."]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'According to spatial models of elections, citizen perceptions of party policy positions are a key determinant of voting choices. Yet recent scholarship from Europe suggests that voters do not adjust their perceptions to what parties advocate in their campaigns. We argue that voters develop a more accurate understanding of parties’ ideological position following a leadership change, and that is because a new leader increases the credibility of party policy offerings. Focusing on Western European parties in the 1979-2012 period, we show that having a new leader is a necessary condition for voters to more accurately perceive the left-right placements of opposition parties. For incumbent parties, on the other hand, voters do not use party platforms to form perceptions of party positions, regardless of whether the leader is new or veteran. Ou' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
According to spatial models of elections, citizen perceptions of party policy positions are a key determinant of voting choices. Yet recent scholarship from Europe suggests that voters do not adjust their perceptions to what parties advocate in their campaigns. We argue that voters develop a more accurate understanding of parties’ ideological position following a leadership change, and that is because a new leader increases the credibility of party policy offerings. Focusing on Western European parties in the 1979-2012 period, we show that having a new leader is a necessary condition for voters to more accurately perceive the left-right placements of opposition parties. For incumbent parties, on the other hand, voters do not use party platforms to form perceptions of party positions, regardless of whether the leader is new or veteran. Ou
spatial models; voter perceptions; party leader; party manifestos; Western Europe.