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Scripture, structure and the formation of Catholic parties: The case of Venez…
What accounts for the virtual absence of new Catholic parties in Latin America over the past four decades? From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, Catholic activists organized a variety of political parties in the region. Yet since the 1970s, despite the dramatic expansion of political opportunities in Catholic-majority countries, Catholicism has played only a marginal role in …
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- Volume 18, Number 3, May 2012 p. 369-390
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- p. 369-390
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- Party Politics
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Financing democracy in Japan: The allocation and consequences of government s…
In 1994, the Japanese Diet implemented a system of public assistance for political parties which many hoped would encourage party-centred rather than candidate-centred campaigns. This study examines some of the consequences of this system for party organizations and politicians. Using data culled from official subsidy and campaign finance reports, two empirical questions are addressed: first, h…
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- Volume 18, Number 3, May 2012 p. 391-408
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- p. 391-408
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From local to national: Explaining the formation of the Australian Green Party
The rise of green parties in Australia follows a path that is well documented in the literature; the inability of other parties to accommodate environmental concerns, the increasing salience of green issues for governments and an electoral regime that permits party insurgency. This article examines how these factors have operated in Australia, and the extent to which a distinctive federal struc…
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- Volume 18, Number 3, May 2012 p. 409-425
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- p. 409-425
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Factions with clout: Presidential cabinet coalition and policy in the Uruguay…
We investigate bill passage by party factions in Uruguay and show that those joining cabinet coalitions earn policy influence. The policy advantage of coalition is therefore not collected by the president alone, as often implied: partners acquire clout in law-making and use it to pass bills of their own and to strike deals with outside factions. Analysis of all bills initiated between 1985 and …
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- Volume 18, Number 3, May 2012 p. 427-451
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- p. 427-451
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Does Cheating Pay? The Effect of Electoral Misconduct on Party Systems
This article examines the effect of electoral misconduct on party systems in new electoral regimes. The authors distinguish between different forms of electoral misconduct and argue that preelection tools—which aim to deter opposition parties and their supporters and create a biased information environment—exert a “psychological” effect on parties and voters, whereas ballot fraud exerts a direc…
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 575-605
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- 0010-4140
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- p. 575-605
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Who Fears What? Explaining Far-Right-Wing Preference in Europe by Distinguish…
This contribution aims, first, to determine whether support for the far right is based on perceptions of cultural or economic threats posed by immigrants in 11 European countries. Second, it seeks to reanalyze the question of whether class is an important explanation for support for the far right using new measures of class and, related to this, to determine the extent to which class interacts …
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 547-574
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- p. 547-574
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Partisan Embedding of Liberalism: How Trade, Investment, and Immigration Affe…
Political scientists have long debated how economic globalization influences national social policies, but they have so far not explored the political demands of political parties implicitly underlying such influence. This article explores such demands to see how globalization affects partisan-political demands for the welfare state in industrialized countries. It argues that political parties …
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 606-635
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 606-635
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- Comparative Political Studies
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The Spillover Effects of Participatory Governance: Evidence From Community-Ma…
In contrast to more pessimistic studies, the authors find evidence that civic participation in one domain of public life can lead to more participation elsewhere, what they call spillover effects. The authors’ findings are based on a large survey—among the broadest in its class—of participants in community-managed schools throughout rural Honduras and Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Despite various ob…
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 636-666
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- p. 636-666
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Building the wrong peace: Reviewing the United Nations Transitional Administr…
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) was established by the UN Security Council on 25 October 1999 to administer the territory of East Timor towards independence in the wake of its violent separation from Indonesia. UNTAET largely fulfilled the elements of the security and governance mandate conferred on it by the Security Council, but this was not sufficient to…
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 3-20
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- 0032-3187
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- p. 3-20
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- Political Science
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Water dragon? China, power shifts and soft balancing in the South Pacific
As China expands its foreign policy interests and strategic power further into the Pacific Ocean, a division is developing between Beijing’s policies in the western Pacific (around East and Southeast Asia), which have begun to assume a more assertive strategic role, and the South Pacific where China is instead seeking to engage in ‘soft balancing’ power behaviour towards American and by extensi…
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 21-38
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- 0032-3187
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- p. 21-38
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Human rights in the South Pacific: A comparative analysis
To date, no research has attempted to evaluate human rights in the Pacific region in comparative perspective. Employing commonly used cross-national measures of basic human rights, the author examines how well regimes in the region respect political and civil rights as well as the right to physical integrity. The results reveal that, as regards political and civil rights, the region appears to …
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 39-61
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- 0032-3187
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- p. 39-61
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New Zealand’s international initiation: Sir James Allen at the League of Na…
New Zealand was a founding member of the League of Nations in 1919 but there was no enthusiasm for the new organisation in Wellington. The Massey government only saw unwelcome obligations resulting from its membership, and the League’s great quest for a comprehensive agreement on security and arbitration was regarded as a threat to the British Empire by its most loyal dominion. Obliged to send …
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 62-80
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- p. 62-80
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Newness as a winning formula for new political parties
Previous studies on new political parties have assumed that they either represent new or ignored cleavages or issues, or emerge in order to cleanse an ideology deficiently represented by an existing party. Four highly successful parties analyzed in this article manifestly fail to comply with these assumptions. The article proposes a parsimonious two-dimensional typology of new parties refining …
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 465-486
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- p. 465-486
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Political market orientation: A framework for understanding relationship stru…
This article is motivated by the growing need to integrate the current political science and marketing literature in order to provide a deeper understanding of the behaviour of political actors and their relationships with relevant stakeholder groups. In our article, we demonstrate how Ormrod’s conceptual model of political market orientation complements political science models of party organi…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 487-502
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Legislative organization in MMP: The case of New Zealand
How do electoral systems affect legislative organization? The change in electoral systems from Single Member District plurality (SMD) to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) in New Zealand can illuminate how electoral incentives affect the distribution of cabinet positions. Because in SMD the outcome of individual local districts determines the number of seats a party wins collectively, New Zealand …
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 503-521
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How many political parties are there, really? A new measure of the ideologica…
We offer a new measure of the ideologically cognizable number of political parties/party groupings that is intended to be complementary to the standard approach to counting the effective number of political parties – the Laakso–Taagepera index (1979). This approach allows the possibility of precise measurement of concepts such as polarized pluralism or fragmented bipolarism and is applicable to…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 523-544
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The paradoxical effects of decline Assessing party system change and the rol…
This article examines the impact of party system change in Germany on the role, status and power of the two catch-all parties (CDU/CSU and SPD) in the light of the 2009 federal election. It argues that party system change has had a paradoxical impact. On the one hand, the decline in the overall catch-all vote undermines the two parties’ integrative function. On the other, the presence of three …
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 545-562
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- p. 545-562
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Electoral regimes and party-switching: Floor-crossing in South Africa's local…
This article presents an inquiry into the causes of party-switching under two different electoral regimes. It exploits a natural experiment in South Africa, where a large number of local legislatures are elected using the same mixed system, to examine how the party-switching behaviours of legislators elected under proportional representation (PR) rules may differ systematically from those of le…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 563-579
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- p. 563-579
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Gendered nationalism: The gender gap in support for the Scottish National Party
Recent major surveys of the Scottish electorate and of Scottish National Party (SNP) members have revealed a distinct gender gap in support for the party. Men are markedly more likely than women to vote for the SNP and they comprise more than two-thirds of its membership. In this article, we use data from those surveys to test various possible explanations for the disproportionately male suppor…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 581-601
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Party organization and concurrent multi-level local campaigning: The 2007 Sco…
Parties often have to campaign for two or more levels of office at the same time. However, declining levels of organization means that the demands of concurrent elections can potentially increase the demands on volunteer party organizations considerably. These demands are multiplied by the concurrent use of different electoral systems which provide party organizations with different incentives.…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 603-622
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