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Party systems and party system change
2023Party systems can be analysed along multiple dimensions, including the competitive strategies of the parties, their linkages to society, their alliance patterns, their number and balance of power, the nature of ideological polarisation, and the overall degree of systemic institutionalisation. The chapter identifies the most influential contributions in
Enyedi, Zsolt, Bértoa, Fernando Casal
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Party Politics, 2006
I argue that the costs of entry, benefits of office and the probability of receiving electoral support, i.e. the strategic entry calculation by new party elites, determine new party emergence. The model is tested using pooled time-series cross-sectional data from 22 OECD countries for elections held between 1960 and 2002.
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I argue that the costs of entry, benefits of office and the probability of receiving electoral support, i.e. the strategic entry calculation by new party elites, determine new party emergence. The model is tested using pooled time-series cross-sectional data from 22 OECD countries for elections held between 1960 and 2002.
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Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems
West European Politics, 2015Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems by Heather Stoll aims to help us better understand how social diversity shapes democratic party systems.
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Party Competition and Party System Change
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1989A proper understanding of party system change demands a dynamic theory of party competition. This should integrate accounts of competition in the legislative party system, in particular coalition formation, with accounts of competition in the electoral party system, in particular vote maximization.
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Parties and party system change
2017This chapter examines parties and party system change across the MENA countries since December 2010. The discussion begins with a brief overview of party systems in the region on the eve of the Arab Spring, thereby providing a quick introduction to the selected cases as well as a benchmark against which to measure change.
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1998
AbstractThis book looks at how the evidence of change and stability in modern political parties and party systems is interpreted. The emphasis is on western European political parties. The primary focus of the book is on processes of political adaptation and control, but it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and ...
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AbstractThis book looks at how the evidence of change and stability in modern political parties and party systems is interpreted. The emphasis is on western European political parties. The primary focus of the book is on processes of political adaptation and control, but it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and ...
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Change in the Italian party system
Res Publica, 1996The article attempts to trace the origins and to assess the extent ofparty-system change in Italy in the 1990s. It also examines some hypotheses on the possible causes of such changes. Building on research on anti-party sentiment and on changes in party organization the paper begins with an analysis of the evolution of the party system in the last 30 ...
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Anti‐party sentiment and party system change in Italy
European Journal of Political Research, 1996AbstractThis article attempts to assess (a) the extent to which anti‐party sentiment has been a factor in Italy's current political changes, with particular reference to the party system; (b) whether such changes can in turn be considered to be a preliminary step towards the rejection of the party‐based model of democracy.
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Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems
2013How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry shape democratic party systems? This book seeks to answer this question. It focuses on the key mechanism by which social heterogeneity shapes the number of political parties: new social groups successfully forming new, sectarian parties.
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On Measuring Party System Change
Comparative Political Studies, 1980When studying party system change over time, it is tempting to use as indicators one or several of the existing measures of fractionalization and concentration. If these measures are used to study change, they will often be misleading because of their inability to discriminate among even very different diachronic patterns.
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