Michael Imre, Alejandro Ecker
Measuring policy positions using 280 characters (or less) – Introducing a new data set on intra-party preference heterogeneity

10th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, (virtual conference), June 18th to June 19th, 2020

The assumption of parties as unitary actors is generally considered an oversimplification, appeals to abolish it have been repeated in the literature for decades. While research opening up the ‘black box’ party has started to pick up pace in recent years, the vast majority of empirical studies in research areas like party competition, coalition governments and voting behaviour still treatsexpand