Search Results - subject:"party systems"

Decentralization and Nationalization of Party Systems

Lago-Peñas, Ignacio; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young … - 2010

examines to what extent party systems are shaped by fiscal and political decentralization. With the exception of a few special … the nationalization of party systems. …

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Political cleavages in Romania. A theoretical overview of the post-communist parties and party systems

OLIMID, ANCA PARMENA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The following article examines the emergence of parties in post-communist Romania concluding that the theoretical basis of cleavages (the Lipset-Rokkanian model) is almost impossible to apply in this country. Accordingly, the historical evolution of the post-communist society and the strategic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105670

Judicial review and political partisanship : moving from consensual to majoritarian democracy

Garoupa, Nuno; Grembi, Veronica - In: International review of law and economics 43 (2015), pp. 32-45

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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - 2007

Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic … approaches. We argue that a modified version of Sartori's typology of party systems provides an appropriate method for … classifying African party systems. Based on Sartori's framework, a preponderance of predominant and dominant party systems is …

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The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited

Erdmann, Gero - 2007

safe to assume that the relevance of ethnicity for the formation of party systems and voter alignment is not a uniform …

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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688720

The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited

Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

safe to assume that the relevance of ethnicity for the formation of party systems and voter alignment is not a uniform …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688758

Notes on the 'Freezing Hypothesis'

Erlingsson, Gissur - Ratioinstitutet - 2007

research has still made little effort to explain why the ‘freezing’ of party systems these authors observed actually took place …

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How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies?

Persson, Torsten; Roland, Gerard; Tabellini, Guido - 2004

We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined. The model predicts that, relative to proportional elections, majoritarian elections reduce government spending because they reduce party...

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How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies?

Persson, Torsten; Roland, Gerard; Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2004

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