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Anti‐party sentiment and party system change in Italy
European Journal of Political Research, 1996Abstract This 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
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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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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Norwegian parties and the party system: Steadfast and changing
West European Politics, 2005Abstract Norwegian political parties have changed in terms of party membership and organisational modes, significantly reducing the value of the mass party and catch-all party models. Membership has declined and decision-making processes have opened up to increased networking, although the formal organisational structures remain close to those of the ...
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A System Perspective on Party System Change
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1989Discussions of party system change may be unsatisfactory if insufficient attention is given to the defining properties of a system. A number of dimensions have to be considered, but - as with `social cleavages' - there can be disagreement as to whether a truly constitutive element is involved.
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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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The Problem of Party System Change
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1989The wave of electoral volatility which swept across most of the West European polities in the late 1960s and 1970s has led many scholars to suggest that the European party systems are now experiencing a major transformation. Given such an emphasis in the contemporary literature, this article attempts to identify some of the key problems in defining ...
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What Innovative Destruction? Changes in Parties and Party Systems
2017The radical transformation of the party system in the four cases of South European democracies in the light of institutionalized participation and of competition are analysed starting since the early 1990s. The attention is directed to the analysis of the decline in voter turnout and party memberships, the electoral volatility and party fragmentation ...
Leonardo Morlino, Francesco Raniolo
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The Dynamics of Party System Change
1991In the past decade the dominant theme of comparative electoral research has changed from explaining the stability of partisan alignments to explaining the dynamics of partisan change. Citizens have presented new demands and new challenges to the established parties, and the evidence of substantial partisan change is now obvious (Dalton et al., 1984 ...
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