Seeking evidence for a Welsh progressive consensus: Party positioning in the 2016 national assembly for Wales election

This article provides a detailed analysis of the policy positions advocated by the five political parties that won seats in the 2016 elections to the National Assembly for Wales (Welsh Labour; Plaid Cymru; the Welsh Conservatives; United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Welsh Liberal Democr...

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Published in:	Parliamentary affairs 2018-10, Vol.71 (4), p.820-844
Main Authors:	Wall, Matthew, Williams, Sophie
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS Ideology Independent Labour Party (Great Britain) Political aspects POLITICAL PARTIES Values Voter registration VOTING Welsh Conservatives (Political party)
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Summary:	This article provides a detailed analysis of the policy positions advocated by the five political parties that won seats in the 2016 elections to the National Assembly for Wales (Welsh Labour; Plaid Cymru; the Welsh Conservatives; United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Welsh Liberal Democrats). It takes advantage of a unique dataset of party positions and justifications created for a Voter Advice Application website that ran during the election campaign. The data collected reflects the responses of senior policy officers within each party to a series of 35 policy questions. This dataset is used to estimate the extent of party disagreement across each policy question as well as to create a matrix of inter-party similarity. These quantitative findings are supplemented by a discussion of the positional justifications proposed by the parties to the project.
ISSN:	0031-2290 1460-2482