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Sticking Together: Explaining Comparative Centre-Right Party Success in Post-…
In this article, we attempt to explain varying patterns of centre—right success between 1990 and 2006 in three post-communist states — Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. Success is understood as the ability to construct broad and durable parties. Both macro-institutional explanations, focusing on executive structures and electoral systems, and historical—structural explanations, stres…
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- Vol. 14, No. 4, July 2008. Page 407-434
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From the Politics of State-Building To Programmatic Politics: The Post-Federa…
The post-federal experience was important in shaping the structure of party competition in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, particularly on the centre—right. The cases of Slovakia and Croatia demonstrate not only how and why appeals relating to national autonomy/statehood became salient in some states in the region, but also why dominant parties stressing such themes were unable to lock…
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- Vol. 14, No. 4, July 2008. Page 435-454
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Why Is There No Christian Democracy in Poland - and Why Should We Care?
Despite the fact that almost all Poles are Roman Catholics and that religion has played an important part in contemporary Polish politics, no self-declared Christian Democratic party has been successful in post-1989 Poland. None of the currently successful Polish centre—right parties profile themselves as Christian Democratic, nor can they be labelled as such objectively. While, superficially,…
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- Vol. 14, No. 4, July 2008. Page 479-500
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Searching for the Right Organization: Ideology and Party Structure in East-Ce…
The article examines four centre—right parties in East-Central Europe in order to assess the impact of ideology on party organization and revisit the thesis of organizational weakness in the region. The data collected indicate that, together with electoral success, inherited resources and national context, ideology does indeed shape the style of organization. Centre—right parties, as opposed …
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- Vol. 14, No. 4, July 2008. Page 455-477
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Europeanization as Heresthetics: Party Competition over Self-Government for S…
This article is a theoretical and empirical contribution to the study of the Europeanization of political parties. On the theoretical side, it draws on the concepts of heresthetics and two-level games to conceptualize a Europeanization mechanism that has so far been overlooked in the literature. It shows that Europeanization can be a heresthetic tool in party competition, notably in terms of op…
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- Vol. 15, No. 1, January 2009 pp. 49-68
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Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics
In this article, I attempt to clarify the relationships among three contemporary concepts that are often used interchangeably or conflated in the literature: anti-establishment politics, political outsiders and populism. In order to make sense of these manifestations of public discontent, I argue that one must examine the nature of political appeals, political actors' locations vis-ŕ-vis the pa…
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- Volume 15, Number 1, January 2009. pp. 29-48
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Government Formation in Multi-Level Settings: Spanish Regional Coalitions and…
It is generally assumed that in multi-level political systems political actors desire to form regional coalitions that match the party composition of the coalition governing at the central level, and that where this matching attempt does not occur it is because a possible new coalition formula for the central level is being tested at the regional one. This article shows that the congruence of p…
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- Volume 15, Number 1, January 2009. pp. 93-115
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Taking Europe To Its Extremes
This article revisits the age-old debate about elite—mass linkages in the European Union (EU) by examining the way in which political contexts shape individual differentiation in Euroscepticism. We argue that the growing uncertainties about the future of European integration among national publics are increasingly politicized by Eurosceptical elites on both the extreme right and left of the pol…
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- Volume 15, Number 1, January 2009. pp. 5-28
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The Dynamic Character of Political Party Evaluations
Over the past 50 years, the American public has consistently been asked to compare the two major parties' ability to handle a variety of issues. The meaning of their answers is an under-studied phenomenon. In this article, I explore changes in comparative party evaluations over time and the source of those changes in attitudes towards the parties. Previous research is based on the assumption th…
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- Volume 15, Number 1, January 2009. pp. 69-92
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Understanding Post-Devolution Elections in Scotland and Wales in Comparative …
In this article, we explore the electoral dynamics of multi-level political systems for the case of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Wales) through a comparison with multi-level voting behaviour in Germany, Spain and Canada. The analysis suggests that sub-state elections can be `second order' in relation to state-wide elections, but that this `second orderness' is reduced when more powers are d…
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- Vol. 15, No. 2, September 2009. pp. 219-240
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Multi-Level Relations in Political Parties: A Delegation Approach
Most political parties operate on several territorial levels, but we have only limited theoretical understanding of multi-level party dynamics. This article presents a delegation framework for studying the interaction between the national leadership and regional branches in state-wide parties. Assuming a principal—agent relationship, the national leadership can obtain benefits from delegating t…
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- Vol. 15, No. 2, September 2009.pp. 137-156
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Patterns of Party Integration, Influence and Autonomy in Seven Federations
In this article, I develop three measures of party organization in multi-level systems: vertical integration, influence and autonomy. I assess these in 27 parties in Canada, Australia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United States and Spain and investigate how parties respond to the incentives and opportunities created by their institutional environment. Clear patterns emerge between the for…
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- Vol. 15, No. 2, September 2009.pp. 157-177
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Party Matters: Devolution and Party Politics in Britain and Spain
This article addresses the relationship between political decentralization and the organization of political parties in Great Britain and Spain, focusing on the Labour Party and the Socialist Party, respectively. It assesses two rival accounts of this relationship: Caramani's `nationalization of politics' thesis and Chhibber and Kollman's rational choice institutionalist account in their book T…
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- Vol. 15, No. 2, September 2009.pp. 179-198
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The Saliency of Regionalization in Party Systems: A Comparative Analysis of R…
The article centres on the saliency that regional decentralization has had for British, Italian and French political parties in the past 60 years. A longitudinal analysis of the emphasis that parties have assigned to this issue in their manifestos confirms the hypothesis that certain environmental factors influence the changes of attention of parties on regionalization in their electoral discou…
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- Vol. 15, No. 2, September 2009.pp. 199-218
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Clientelism Versus Ideology: Problems of Party Development in Brazil
Although aggregate data on party competition in Brazil seem hopeful, unsettling trends appear in state-level party systems in the years of the consolidation of Brazilian democracy (the period this article examines extends through the 2002 elections), such as instability and fragmentation, which exceed the extent of problems apparent at the national level. These hamper the informational role par…
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- Volume 15, Number 3, May 2009. pp. 335-355
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Patrons Against Partisans: The Politics of Patronage in Mass Ideological Parties
Patronage is an enduring feature of contemporary politics and may well develop in modern, mass organized and ideological political parties. This article approaches patronage in an analytical way, and seeks to explore its micro-foundations and logic of development. As the case of Greece's socialist party suggests, patronage is the deliberate outcome of choices made by political actors at the sub…
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- Volume 15, Number 3, May 2009. pp. 315-334
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Measuring the Professionalization of Political Campaigning
This article develops and tests a new multidimensional index — CAMPROF — that is designed to measure and compare parties' use of professionalized campaign techniques during elections. Based on the extant literature, we identify and operationalize the essential components of this new form of campaigning to create a 30-point index that is applied to the case of the 2005 German federal election. T…
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- Volume 15, Number 3, May 2009. pp. 265-293
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Party Preferences and Economic Voting in Turkey (Now That the Crisis Is Over)
The purpose of this study is to re-examine the factors that shape party preferences in Turkey by estimating an individual vote intention function. The economic variables in the empirical model are items that can be used to test the conventional `economic voting' hypotheses, i.e. whether individuals' economic evaluations about the past or the near future affect their party choice. In an earlier …
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- Volume 15, Number 3, May 2009. pp. 377-391
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The Rise and Fall of the Argentine Centre—Left: The Crisis of Frente Grande
This article analyses the inner workings of the Argentinian Frente Grande party at the height of its political and electoral development. It is based on the assumption that parties are not singular actors, but diverse organizations with complex internal operations. From that perspective, in order to identify the causes of both its rapid growth and current crisis, the article examines the distri…
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- Volume 15, Number 3, May 2009. pp. 357-375
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Party Strategy or Candidate Strategy: How Does the LDP Run the Right Number o…
Under the single non-transferable vote (SNTV), political parties are faced with the strategic problem of matching the number of candidates to their vote total. Running either too many or too few candidates may lose a seat that could otherwise have been won. Many studies have confirmed that Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) solved this strategic problem relatively well and ran close to the …
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- Volume 15, Number 3, May 2009. pp. 295-314
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