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RESUMEN: Este artículo examina por qué algunas democracias y semidemocracias desarrollan sistemas de partidos relativamente estables, mientras que otras continúan envueltas en altos niveles de volatilidad electoral.
Scott MAINWARING, Edurne ZOCO
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Economic indicators and electoral volatility: economic effects on electoral volatility in Western Europe, 1950–2013 [PDF]
Economic voting theory assumes that on an individual level voters react to economic indicators to hold incumbents responsible for the performance of the economy. On an aggregate level, this would imply that there is an association between economic indicators and levels of volatility since voters have to switch parties if they want to punish or reward ...
Ruth Dassonneville, Marc Hooghe
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The Decline of Islamic Parties and the Dynamics of Party System in Post-Suharto Indonesia
This study aims to investigate the decline of Islamic parties in post-Suharto Indonesia and its correlation with changes in the electoral system. Using a mixed method, data on the post-Suharto election was analyzed quantitatively using the Pedersen ...
Asep Nurjaman
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Öst är öst och väst är väst? En jämförande studie av partisystemens stabilitet i Europa 2008–2019
East is East and West is West? Comparing Party System Stability in Europe 2008–2019 This article compares trends in party system stability in Central/ Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western Europe, to see if recent studies indicating that the two regions have ...
Andreas Bågenholm
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Previous research has shown that presidential debates have “minimal effects” on aggregate electoral preferences because they mainly reinforce people's pre-existing political preferences.
Francisco Cantú, Miguel Carreras
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Does Size Matter? Electoral Performance of Small Parties in Brazil [PDF]
What is the impact of small parties on electoral outcomes? This articles aims at contributing to the literature on party systems by proposing a new method to classify political parties.
Willber Nascimento +4 more
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Volatility and Electoral Shocks [PDF]
Abstract The General Elections of 2015 and 2017 marked a historically high level of volatility, both at the aggregate level and at the level of the individual voter. In this chapter we describe how this increased volatility is part of a long-term trend in British politics, but one which accelerated markedly after 2010.
Edward Fieldhouse +6 more
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Electoral volatility and the dynamics of electoral reform
AbstractRecent elections in Europe have shown that a context of increasing citizen distrust towards democratic institutions may lead to very high levels of electoral volatility and to the emergence of new parties. On the other hand, institutional reforms are sometimes presented as a solution to citizens’ discontent with political institutions. Focusing
Nunez Lopez, Lidia +2 more
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VOLATILITY AND WESTERN EUROPEAN PARTY SYSTEMS: TWO NEW APPROACHES
The sharp rise in electoral volatility in the last two decades calls for a new explanation of Western European party systems. The established party system theory—Lipset and Rokkan’s “freezing hypothesis”—is not confirmed by today’s data.
Jan-Erik Lane
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Party identification: The case of Serbia [PDF]
In the introduction the question is asked: why, in Serbia, both enormous electoral volatility and widespread party identification are registered simultaneously.
Antonić Slobodan
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