Voters often choose parties that share similar positions to them on certain issues. Andreas Goldberg and Jonas Lefevere argue that this behaviour is more prevalent among voters with more extreme issue positions. So, better understanding the role of policy issues in electoral competition requires considering voters’ positional extremity
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU Trondheim
Andreas’ research interests include political behaviour in elections and referendums (turnout, cleavage voting, and contextual effects), political communication (electoral campaigns and media effects), EU attitudes (future preferences, polarisation, and responsibility attributions) and survey research (non-response bias, misreporting and mixed-mode surveys).
His work has been published in various journals including the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of European Public Policy, Electoral Studies and European Union Politics.
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