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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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Good Governance and Party System Change
Politics & Policy, 2020While scholars and practitioners have extensively analyzed the causes, the consequences and, more generally, the correlates of good governance, little‐to‐no attention has been paid to whether the institutionalization of political parties—as evidenced by the stability of the party system—is in any way related to good governance.
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Fighting the system? Populist radical right parties and party system change
Party Politics, 2014This article assesses the impact of populist radical right parties on national party systems in Western Europe. Has the emergence of this new party family changed the interaction of party competition within Western European countries? First, I look at party system change with regard to numerical and numerical–ideological terms.
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Scandinavian Political Studies, 2009
The current imperative in journal articles of presenting new data and new ‘theory’ has largely been at the expense of new interpretations and ‘big picture’ analyses. This article proceeds from the failure of the comparative politics literature, from Sartori to Evans and Green‐Pedersen, to grasp the essential dynamics of the Cold War Finnish party ...
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The current imperative in journal articles of presenting new data and new ‘theory’ has largely been at the expense of new interpretations and ‘big picture’ analyses. This article proceeds from the failure of the comparative politics literature, from Sartori to Evans and Green‐Pedersen, to grasp the essential dynamics of the Cold War Finnish party ...
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Party System Stability and Change
2003This chapter will examine the impact of electoral systems on party system stability, understood in terms of electoral volatility and the ability of new entrants into the electoral arena to penetrate the support bases of existing political organizations.
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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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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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European Party Systems: Continuity and Change
1997The debate about the stability or change in contemporary Western European party systems is characterised by a cacophony of contradictory voices. On one side are those who see still the same old blocs of parties on the left and the right, large and small party machines, and dominance of parties’ parliamentary and government leaders over the party ...
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