Overview
- Bridges two extensive branches of literature, political corruption and valence issues, rarely engaging with each other
- Combines empirically-grounded single-country studies with a comparative analysis of both national and European elections
- Illustrates the importance of differentiating the direction of valence campaigning on corruption issues
- Highlights the relationship between valence issues, populist strategies based on anti-elite rhetoric and ideological considerations
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- party manifestoes
- political campaign issues
- policy issues
- spatial theory of voting
- legislative speeches
- valence issues
- populist politics
- electoral accountability
- campaigning on corruption issues
- political accountability
- political corruption in the US
- political corruption in Japan
- political corruption in Italy
- corruption campaigns in the 2016 US election
About this book
This book investigates the ideological conditions inducing political actors to highlight corruption issues through valence campaigns. Using case studies and comparative analyses of party programmes, legislatives speeches and social media data, the author demonstrates that the more parties and/or candidates present a similar policy programme, the more they rely on valence campaigns. In other words, as the ideologies of parties have become increasingly similar over recent decades, the content of political competition has substantially shifted from policy to non-policy factors, such as corruption issues. These dynamics, and the ideological considerations underpinning them, also provide a novel perspective on recent phenomena in contemporary democracies, such as the growth of negative campaigning, as well as populist strategies based on anti-elite rhetoric. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in political corruption, valence politics, populism and electoral campaigning.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Luigi Curini is Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, and Visiting Professor at Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan. He was selected for the 2016 International Visitor Leadership Program by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. His recent publications include Politics and Big Data: Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media (with A. Ceron and SM. Iacus, 2017) and Why Policy Representation Matters: The Consequences of Ideological Congruence between Citizens and their Governments (with W. Jou and V. Memoli, 2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Corruption, Ideology, and Populism
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Valence Political Campaigning
Authors: Luigi Curini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56735-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56734-1Published: 01 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85987-3Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56735-8Published: 22 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 206
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Legislative and Executive Politics, Political Communication, Electoral Politics