Tracing the cognitive and affective roots of ‘party competence’: Italy and Britain, 2001

摘要: Abstract This paper presents findings from a study of the role “party competence” as an explanatory variable voting choice. Arguing that party competence can find independent status in explaining choice, and place reasoning voters, it is shown be distinguished issue-ownership. Further, has both cognitive affective components—through role, respectively, retrospective performance evaluation leadership—and exerts significant impact on voters' The analysis carried out post-election surveys conducted by Italian (Itanes) British (Bes) election 2001.