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Holding Their Own: Explaining the Persistence of Green Parties in France and …
In his seminal work, Kirchheimer (1966) argued that as larger parties transformed into catch-all parties we would see the disappearance of small parties. We know, however, that Green parties are one example of small parties that have persisted in many European party systems. In this article, I seek to explain this inconsistency. I argue that Kirchheimer did not anticipate the development and gr…
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- Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2009.pp. 615-634
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Campaigning and the Catch-All Party: The Process of Party Transformation in B…
Otto Kirchheimer’s well-known diagnosis of ‘catch-all’ partism in Western Europe rests on an implicit causal argument about the consequences of social change for political parties. This article takes up the causal story underlying Kirchheimer’s account and traces its implications for a specific, though central, party activity: campaigning. As Kirchheimer discerned, the transformation of advance…
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- Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2009.pp. 555-572
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Kirchheimer Italian Style: Catch-All Parties or Catch-All Blocs
In this article, I use the Italian case to demonstrate that Kirchheimer’s catch-all thesis can be applied in various ways. Unlike parties in many European nations, Italian parties did not undergo a catch-all transformation in the post-war period. However, after the parties and party system were dramatically reformed in the 1990s, some catch-all characteristics — with clarifications — in Italy a…
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- Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2009.pp. 573-591
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The Catch-All Party Revisited: Reflections of a Kirchheimer Student
This article aims to do the following: reflect upon the life, experiences, ideas and teaching of Kirchheimer from the perspective of the author, his first dissertation advisee at Columbia University and one of his last students; discuss some of his major political observations and arguments; and consider their relevance today.
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- Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2009.pp. 543-554
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Kirchheimer’s French Twist: A Model of the Catch-All Thesis Applied to the …
Despite the fact that the catch-all thesis has profoundly affected scholarship on political parties, operationalizing the thesis and applying it to evaluate empirical cases has proved challenging for scholars. The thesis has been criticized for lacking a theoretical framework of analysis and clear causal logic. Therefore, while it is often cited it is rarely tested. In this article I develop a …
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- Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2009.pp. 592-614
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Dissent in a Party-Based Parliament: The Portuguese Case
With a focus on the Portuguese case, this article shows how MPs express disagreement with their parties in a highly cohesive and party-dominated parliament. We review the features that explain why the Portuguese institutional framework reinforces party control over the parliamentary mandate and discuss the different ways Portuguese MPs express party dissent. In the last section of the article, …
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- Vol. 15, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 695-713
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Party Behaviour in the Parliamentary Arena: The Case of the Korean National A…
This article investigates the nature of party behaviour in the legislative arena in a developing democracy by undertaking a spatial analysis of voting in the Korean National Assembly. We discover the main dimensions of politics in the Korean parliament and look at how KNA members’ ideological preferences, regional interests and the shift from divided to unified government shapes relations betwe…
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- Vol. 15, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 667-694
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Gender and Political Party Leadership in Canada
In this article, we compare the experiences of male and female party leaders at the provincial and federal levels in Canada between 1980 and 2005 and test several hypotheses regarding gender and party leadership. The Canadian case provides an excellent case study given the relatively large number of women (21 in total) who held the position of party leader during the time period in question. Th…
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- Vol. 15, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 737-757
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Modelling Government Formation in Denmark and Beyond
This article proposes a new model of government formation: the Dual Power Base Model. The starting point is the median voter theorem, but an institutional limitation suggested by Laver and Shepsle (2000) is added. The claim is that it takes a certain number of MPs to cope with the practical tasks of running a government — that is, to have ‘Office Capacity’. If the median party has Office Capaci…
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- Vol. 15, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 715-735
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Coalition-Formation as a Result of Policy and Office Motivations in the Germa…
In this article, we analyze the policy and office motivations of parties in coalition-formation processes at the German federal-state level. We utilize a model developed by Sened that considers both motivations simultaneously and introduces a method by which to estimate its key parameters using data of German state-level coalition-formations.
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 2010. pp. 111-130
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Party Direction: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective
The purpose of this article is to further our understanding of the directional nature of left—right scores. I suggest that a party’s ability to modify its perceived position is conditional on whether parties adopt their manifestos to alter their perceived position and on whether voters are persuaded by parties’ attempts to relocate in political space. As voters’ knowledge of political parties i…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 2010. pp. 51-67
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Where Are the Disgruntled Voters?: Voter—Party Relations under Cartelizing …
Katz and Mair’s provocative Cartel Party argument continues to create fertile ground for debate. This article contributes to under-explored areas of this debate by enhancing the theoretical and empirical understanding of the change in the relationship between parties and voters resulting from the introduction of the cartelizing condition of public funding. To this end, the article examines vote…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 2010. pp. 29-49
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Get the Party Started: Development of Political Party Legislative Dynamics in…
In this article, we investigate the effect of political parties on legislative behaviour. We compile and analyse a unique dataset of all roll-call votes for all the sessions of the Irish Free State Seanad (the Upper Chamber in the legislature, 1922—36). The development of legislative parties inside the Irish Seanad led to the formation of cohesive voting blocs after 1928. This caused dramatic s…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 2010. pp. 89-110
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Parties’ Responses to Economic Globalization: What is Left for the Left and…
Do parties adjust their economic policy positions in response to the international economy? I explore how international economic conditions affect Western Europe’s welfare states by quantitatively analysing parties’ ideological dynamics over time. Considering the convergence—divergence argument of the globalization literature, I evaluate the hypothesis that economic openness motivates parties t…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 2010. pp. 5-27
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The Moderation Theory Revisited: The Case of Islamic Political Actors
An influential political science literature argues that integration of radical political parties within the political system leads to their moderation. These parties trade off their ideological platforms for electoral viability and political legality. Radicals become moderates through strategic interests. In this article, I revisit this thesis and apply it to the Islamic political actors in Ira…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 2010. pp. 69-88
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Effect of Local Ties On Electoral Success and Parliamentary Behaviour: The Ca…
The growing literature on personal vote assumes that candidates with strong local ties should be more successful electorally and more likely to break party unity in parliament. Using unique data from Estonia on candidates’ personal vote-earning attributes, such as local birthplace and local-level political experience, this research note offers the first direct test of both of these assumptions.…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2010. pp. 215-235
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Methodological Issues in the Study of New Parties’ Entry and Electoral Success
Studies of the emergence and electoral success of new parties frequently suffer from conceptual and methodological flaws: effects of electoral institutions that primarily operate at the level of the constituencies are specified at the national level; central explanatory variables such as electoral demands and competitors’ responses are measured with crude proxies; the interplay of formation and…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2010. pp. 147-170
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The Effective Number of Parties: A New Approach
The Laakso—Taagepera index of the effective number of parties, while satisfying most of the requirements of this aggregate quantity, tends to produce unrealistically high scores for party constellations in which the shares of the largest parties exceed 50 percent, and can produce misleading results in several other situations. After reviewing the structural properties of the Laakso—Taagepera in…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2010. pp. 171-192
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Explaining Participation in Intra-Party Elections: Evidence from Belgian Poli…
This article focuses on the participation of party members in intra-party elections and on explanations for this behaviour. The number of intra-party elections is increasing, but their study remains an under-researched phenomenon in contemporary party politics. I test whether participation theories applicable to participation in society also obtain in intra-party elections. The theories tested …
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2010. pp. 237-259
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Parsimonious Model for Predicting Mean Cabinet Duration On the Basis of Elect…
This study joins two existing logical models and tests the resulting predictions of mean cabinet duration (C). One of these models predicts C based on effective number of parties (N): C = k/N2, where k is found to be around 42 years. The other predicts N on the basis of number of seats in the assembly (S) and district magnitude (M). The new combined model leads to a prediction for the mean cab…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2010. pp. 261-281
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