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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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It's About The Benefits:Choice Environments, Ideological Proximity and Indivi…
This article approaches the question of turnout by focusing on the benefits term in the classic equation through an examination of the relationship between the quality of the choice environment, ideological proximity and participation in 28 democracies. Using data from the CSES (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems), I find that electoral contexts that feature choice-rich environments, measur…
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- Volume 15, Number 4, July 2009. pp. 435-454
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Rethinking Factionalism: Typologies, Intra-Party Dynamics and Three Faces of …
It is time to think again about the conceptualization of factionalism in political science. Following a brief review of scholarly contributions in the field, I argue that the analytical approach based on typologies and categories of subparty groups is not very useful in explaining intra-party behaviour and the process of change because, by their nature, these are static tools. Building on previ…
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- Volume 15, Number 4, July 2009. pp. 455-485
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Party Non-Systems: A Conceptual Innovation
This article makes a case for expansion of the conceptual framework for the classification of party universe types. In particular, it introduces the concept of `party non-systems', defined as those party universes characterized by a fundamental absence of inter-temporal continuity in the identity of the main parties. At the heart of this concept is the explicit differentiation between intra- an…
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- Volume 15, Number 4, July 2009. pp. 487-520
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Still Talking, But Is Anyone Listening?: The Changing Face of Constituency Ca…
Constituency electioneering has become established as an important element of postmodern political campaigning, allowing parties and candidates to focus effort on targeted seats. A substantial literature has developed, showing the efficacy of such targeting: other things being equal, the harder parties’ campaign locally, the more votes they win relative to their rivals. However, on the whole, s…
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- Volume 15, Number 4, July 2009. pp. 411-434
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‘Empty Nets’: Social Democracy and the ‘Catch-All Party Thesis’ in Ge…
The Social Democratic parties of Germany and Sweden were part of ‘third way’ movements common to such political parties during the mid-1990s. By continuing to moderate their positions and move away from their traditional bases towards the centre, they seemed to embody — a generation later — a second embracing of Kirchheimer’s ‘catch-all’ party thesis. But unlike its 1960s’ incarnation, each of …
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- Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2009.pp. 635-653
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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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