Explain Pops, Issues and Political Parties to me

[Hackworthy]

I've got a decent amount of hours into Vicky II, I usually play it on and off in alternation with CK II. While I generally manage to get by okay, I'm still not sure I actually understand the full meaning of Pops, Issues and their actual effects. For instance: I'm currently playing as Brazil and I've just started an early election to get it out of the way before I send my troops off to support Chile in the Pacific War. I see that both the Liberals and the Nationalists support Residency while the incumbent Partido Conservador supports Limited Citizenship. I believe your immigration policy effects immigrant attraction and assimilation rate, does it not? If so: I want Limited Citizenship as it's clearly going to grow and homogenize my population the fastest. However, for economic policy the liberals have Protectionism, which is what I prefer to the incumbent party's Free Trade policy.

So, when it comes to skewing the election results; If I point people towards the incumbent party's immigration policy and the liberal opposition's economic policy... what happens?

 

[dezuman]

Swaying pops to a party's policy will make more of them vote for that party, do it enough and that party will be elected. Promoting the policies of two different parties will just split their votes. So there's really only to pick the party that you hate the least and promote it xD

 

[sgt.stickybomb]

Swaying pops to a party's policy will make more of them vote for that party, do it enough and that party will be elected. Promoting the policies of two different parties will just split their votes. So there's really only to pick the party that you hate the least and promote it xD

What happens if there are multiple parties with the same issue? like the communist and the socialist both supporting full citizenship, where would the vote go?

 

[PanH]

What happens if there are multiple parties with the same issue? like the communist and the socialist both supporting full citizenship, where would the vote go?

Afaik, they'll vote for both, though in your case, there would be a difference due to the pops having differences in ideology support.