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Dominant party systems and electoral volatility in Africa: a comment on mozaf…
In a recent publication in this journal, Mozaffar and Scarritt claim to have found a puzzling combination of low fragmentation and high volatility in African party systems. However, if we look at national party systems rather than Africa-wide averages, include regime type as a variable and specify dominance, we find three different constellations: dominant party systems with relatively low …
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- Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2008. Page 113-130
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Intra-party politics and coalition formation: evidence from Swedish local gov…
Traditional theories about government formation in parliamentary democracies are based on the assumption that parties can be characterized as unitary actors. Many authors have questioned the soundness of this assumption. The problem with keeping it is that we may miss important factors explaining why certain coalitions form if we do not consider the role of intra-party politics. In this a…
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- Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2008. Page 71-89
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Equal access, unequal success major and minor Canadian parties on the net
The Internet has been heralded as the most revolutionary technology since the printing press. Within political science, much work centres around the democratizing potential of the Internet. Cyber-optimists argue that the Internet has the capacity to equalize political competition for parties. Other scholars argue that the Internet will not dramatically change the status of minor parties. …
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- Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2008. Page 51-70
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Rational Expectations or Heuristics?: Strategic Voting in Proportional Repres…
The process of information of electoral expectations in proportional representation systems is analysed in this article. Contrary to Duvergerian or electoral coordination theories, by using survey and in-depth elite intervieew data from Spain in the 1970s and 1980s, it is show that strategic voting depends on heuritics rather than on rational expectations. The main implication is taht strategic…
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- Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2008. Page 31-49
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The Politics of Institutional Change: Electoral Reform in Latin America, 1978…
Building on the growing body of research on political institutions, this article explores the causes of electoral reform, with specific reference to Latin America. What factors account for the extensive array of electoral reforms adopted in the region since the return to democracy? How are shifting patterns of political representation related to institutional change? In addressing these q…
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- Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2008. Page 5-30
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Fluid party systems, electoral rules and accountability of legislators in eme…
Does the system of repeated parliamentary elections function as a mechanism of political control in new democracies with fluid party systems? Moreover, does electoral format affect the degree to which voters are able to hold legislators accountable for their performance in office? In addressing these questions, we use a new database on all legislative incumbents and all parliamentary elections …
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- Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2008. Page 91-112
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Online Electoral Competition in Different Settings: A Comparative Meta-Analys…
This article takes a close look at two important theories concerning the effects that online party campaigning has on party competition. The equalization and normalization theories are tested for systematic logical dependence on conditions present in existing studies within the research field. The conditions are country-specific contextual settings and studyspecific methodology. The method of q…
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- Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2008. Page 223-244
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The Effective Number of Parties At Four Scales: Votes, Seats, Legislative Pow…
Different scholars count `the number of parties' in different ways, partly because they examine different parts of the political process and for different reasons. Sartori's qualitative approach focused mainly on competition for government, but is now largely supplanted by the quantitative `effective number of parties' index, which deals with votes and seats. But some quantitative research re…
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- Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2008. Page 167-187
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Party Polarization and Citizens' Left—Right Orientations
The article investigates the differences among West European countries in terms of the degree to which individuals' left—right self-placement is anchored in social, value and partisan factors. The study shows that clarity of party alternatives is much more important than political socialization in structuring citizens' left—right attitudes, i.e. the greater the clarity of party alternatives,…
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- Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2008. Page 189-209
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The Parameters of Party Systems
Despite the scepticism that increasingly surrounds their role and standing in contemporary democracies, scholarly interest in political parties continues unabated. But this interest is also proving uneven, with relatively little attention now being given to the study of party systems. More specifically, the level of theoretical interest in party systems remains limited, with almost no substanti…
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- Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2008. Page 147-166
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Recognition Rules, Party Labels and the Number of Parties in India: A Researc…
This Research Note offers an alternative explanation for the variation over time in the number of parties in India's national party system. It is argued that the actual number of parties has changed in direct response to the incentives provided by the official rules and regulations on party recognition. In turn, the raw number of parties has shaped the effective number of parties positively: t…
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- Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2008. Page 211-222
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Factions, Parties and the Durability of Parliaments, Coalitions and Cabinets:…
Did Thailand's multiple parties and factions influence cabinet and coalition durability in the period 1979 to 2001? If so, which one — parties or factions — was the more significant? Taking a Transaction Costs Analysis approach, this article addresses these questions and argues that intra-party factions, as the building blocks of Thai parliamentary politics, have been more important than…
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- Vol. 14, No. 3, March 2008. Page 299-323
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The Christian Democratic Phoenix and Modern Unsecular Politics
Christian democracy is still posing theoretical problems of definition and empirical puzzles of classification and interpretation. Analyses based on secularization theory produce puzzles and anomalies and have little to offer as explanations for the variation in Christian democratic power mobilization. Empirically, this article focuses on Christian democracy in The Netherlands and offers an exp…
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- Vol. 14, No. 3, May 2008. Page 259-279
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Factors Influencing the Decision of the Young Politically Engaged To Join a P…
Situated in the literature concerning the decline of party members, and the dearth of young party members, this article considers the factors that influence the decision of a politically engaged young person to join, or not join, a political party. Making use of a unique dataset, we examine the attitudes and socialization of a large group of politically active young Canadians, a group that incl…
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- Vol. 14, No. 3, May 2008. Page 345-369
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The Political Representation of Ethnic Minorities: Denmark as a Deviant Case
In general, ethnic minorities are strongly under-represented in representative bodies; however, there is no rule without exceptions. In the municipal elections in Denmark in 2001, the number of ethnic minorities who won election to the local councils throughout the country almost corresponded to their percentage in the general population. The explanation for this can be found in the Danis…
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- Vol. 14, No. 3, May 2008. Page 325-343
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Parties and Leader Effects: Impact of Leaders in the Vote for Different Types…
In this article, I analyse whether the electorate of different party types attributes different degrees of importance to leaders, as suggested by a recent party typology. Based on expert advice, 15 parties in six democracies were assigned to the following party types: class-mass, denominational and catch-all. Individual level data are used to determine the relative importance of leader ef…
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- Vol. 14, No. 3, May 2008. Page 281-298
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Centre-Right Parties and Political Outcomes in East Central Europe
The emergence of moderate centre—right parties in East Central Europe after 1989 was closely related to the strength and nature of organized opposition during the late communist period. Where such opposition was strong enough to take power, it went on to become the ideological, organizational and elite base for one or more moderate right parties. Where it was weak, moderate right parties were…
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- Vol. 14, No. 4, July 2008. Page 387-405
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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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