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Goodin, Robert E. and Saward, Michael
(2005).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2005.00708.x
Abstract
Manipulative mixed messages from candidates to voters affect what governments are entitled to do in office. A party that wins an election gains a 'mandate to rule'. But there is a second type of mandate: a 'policy mandate' to enact specific policy proposals central to the winning party's campaign. Mixed-message politics in general can undermine policy mandates, and the use of 'dog whistle politics' - telling one group of voters one thing, while allowing or encouraging another group to believe another - makes the inferring of policy mandates especially problematic. Referendums provide only a partial remedy to dog whistle politics. Winning a clear policy mandate means forgoing dog whistle politics, despite the short term electoral advantage they may deliver.
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- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0032-3179
- Keywords
- democracy;voting; elections; mandates; campaigns; referendums
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