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Political Parties and the Party System
1993The growth of political parties was integrally tied to the development of the pillars. For the Protestants, organisation was due in no small part to the efforts of the nineteenth-century leader, Abraham Kuyper. Kuyper was a master organiser and founded (or helped to found) many of the most important institutions within the pillar.
Rudy B. Andeweg, Galen A. Irwin
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Political Parties and Party Systems
2008Within the varied literature that has addressed the relationship between European integration, on the one hand, and the character and development of parties and party systems, on the other, three related concerns have been prominent. In the first place, and often reflecting the earliest tradition of research in this area, scholars have sought to trace ...
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Political Parties and Party Systems
2017This chapter discusses political parties and party systems, which form a crucial aspect of a modern representative democracy. The origins and natures of political parties, including their functions and organizations, are explained. Party systems govern the dynamics between parties and are considered as the mechanism to represent divergent interests in ...
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Political Parties and Political Systems
2005Since its release in 1980, Kay Lawson'sPolitical Parties and Linkage: A Comparative Perspectivehas become a classic text in the field of political science. In her groundbreaking work Lawson approaches linkage from an angle left unexplored by her predecessors. Her thinking filled in the systematic and theoretical void by envisioning political parties as
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Venezuela's Political Party System
Party Politics, 1998Focusing on post-1958 party system evolution in Venezuela, this study examines how elite reactions to four defining events diluted relationships between structural cleavages and partisanship. These events were the unification of elite factions behind procedural democracy, post-1973 increases in state income from the international sale of petroleum ...
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Political Parties in Multi-Layered Systems
European Urban and Regional Studies, 2003The language used to analyse party behaviour is intrinsically single-level in nature. Recent processes of institutional reform undertaken across Europe - prompting the development of meaningful party competition at the non-statewide level - have had little influence in altering this discourse.
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Political Parties and the Party System
2016Juan Albarracin examines the range of political parties in Brazil. In this article, he discusses the most important and sometimes contradictory findings about Brazilian political parties, the party system itself and its development since 1985. First, he presents a portrait of the fragmentation, polarization, and institutionalization of the party system
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Party Switching, Party Systems, and Political Representation
2009The literature on parties and party systems assumes that electoral competition and intraparty policy deliberations are the two primary mechanisms for making parties responsive to public opinion. By implication, this suggests that little else happens between elections to keep politicians responsive to voters. The recent work on party switching, however,
Marcus Kreuzer, Vello Pettai
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Political Cleavages and Party Systems
World Politics, 1969The field of the comparative study of political party systems has been particularly fortunate to have been the focus of quite a number of substantial scholarly team efforts in recent years. Individual case studies are still appearing that follow Robert A. Dahl's model of the “patterns of opposition.” Terms such as “crisis of participation” or Sartori's
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