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Parties and the Party System: On the Edge of Bankruptcy?
2007Last year’s Review suggested two contradictory shifts in the British party system. On the one hand, there is real evidence that the grip of the main political parties is loosening dramatically. However measured, the number of effective parties has risen and independents and minor party candidates appear to have an increased chance of electoral ...
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Parties and Party Systems: Movement in the System?
2006Party politics in 2005 was dominated by the general election and the actions of the political parties before 5 May could be seen in anticipation of the election and after 5 May as part of the reaction to it. By the end of the year a rapid transformation in British party politics had been made possible, with a change in the leadership of the ...
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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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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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Theorizing Parties and Party Systems
2017From parliamentarism to political organizations, parties and party systems have evolved from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century global world, becoming important catalysts of political change and transformation. While the formation of parties across the globe has followed different patterns, to be characterized by four I’s ...
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The Emergence of Parties and Party Systems
2009Abstract This article discusses the emergence of parties and party systems. It summarizes the two main competing explanations of party systems, which are the neo-institutionalist research agenda and the historical-sociological literature. It then evaluates their strengths and limitations. The last two sections are focused on a new method
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