Search Results - subject:"party systems"

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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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190433

Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

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

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, Gérard; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

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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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Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies

Persson, Torsten; Roland, Gerard; Tabellini, Guido - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2 (2007) 2, pp. 155-188

We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy where electoral competition inside coalition governments induces higher spending than under single party governments. Policy preferences of parties are endogenous and derived from opportunistic reelection motives. The electoral rule...

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The Role of European Integration in National Election Campaigns

Kriesi, Hanspeter - In: European Union Politics 8 (2007) 1, pp. 83-108

This study asks how and to what extent political parties in six West European countries - Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK - have addressed the process of European integration in national election campaigns since the 1970s. Based on a content analysis of...

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

Persson, Torsten; Roland, Gérard; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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