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Higher education in China: Institutions and mechanisms of the state and party management

RUDN journal of Sociology, 2020
The higher education of China has achieved significant results in recent years. Therefore, it is important to study management of this system and basic mechanisms used by the party and state institutions. The article is based on the analysis of open data
T. L Guruleva, Wang Bing
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Independents and the Party System

, 2021
Abstract The presence of independents in the Irish political system is unusual from a comparative perspective. Sometimes seen as an idiosyncratic phenomenon, they are analysed in terms of their relation to the party system, and categorized in a manner similar to that applied to party families.
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Party Systems

Party systems are a central concept in the study of political science, referring to the set of interactions and competitive relationships among political parties within a given polity. Rather than focusing on individual parties, the party system perspective analyzes how parties behave in relation to one another and within the overall structure of ...
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Parties and the party system

, 2017
This chapter outlines the key actors in the party system and the evolution of competition between them. First, the origins of the party system are examined from a comparative perspective, with a discussion of some of the debates about its formation. It examines the structure and workings of parties.
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The determinants of Party System Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

Otoritas: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, 2018
This article examines what socio-economic factors are conducive to changes in the patterns of inter-party competition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Riccardo Pelizzo
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Comparative Party System Analysis in Central and Eastern Europe: the Case of the Baltic States [PDF]

Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2011
The nature of the party systems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has puzzled many scholars. High instability of the party systems and their specific evolution makes the application of theoretical models designed predominately for Western European ...
Tõnis Saarts
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Cartel Parties and Beyond: What Characterizes Danish Parties?

Teoria Polityki
The cartel party model was published almost 30 years ago, and in this seminal article, Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair argued that Denmark was a most likely case for cartel party tendencies due to the ...
Karina Kosiara-Pedersen
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Why has Europe become the concentration area of multi-party states: A novel explanatory model of multifactorial mechanism

Heliyon
The existence of a multi-party system is one of the most important criterion for assessing the degree of democratization of a state. In contemporary democratic republics, the multi-party system has become a formalistic representation. However, in Europe,
Caikun Cheng, Caisheng Cheng, Haoshen Che   +2 more
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The role of founding elections in shaping the Romanian party system. Electoral clarity versus the failure of party in government (1990-2014)

Sfera Politicii, 2015
25 years after the first competitive elections, the Romanian party system still exhibits high levels of discontinuity between electoral competitions and governmental functioning.
Alexandra Iancu
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