This paper explores the impact of decentralization on countries' fiscal outcomes paying attention to one aspect usually neglected in the literature: the relevance of self-interested local politics. Relevance that can be proxied by the nationalization of political party systems, namely the extent...

The global financial crisis of the recent years has been a serious stress test for representative democracies. Voter support has supposedly become more volatile, fragmented and polarized, leaving elites with an intricate mix of economic and political challenges. However, a closer look at a new...

Does the level of party system institutionalization influence high-level incumbents' electoral support within subnational authoritarianism? Is it possible to ensure incumbent electoral success only with manipulative electoral practices? To what extent does this and other factors contribute to...

This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya's political parties and its party system since 1992. Drawing on a constructivist conception of ethnicity, it uses a framework of comparison derived from Donald Horowitz and distinguishes between three party types: the...

Este livro, publicado em 2015 pela editora alemã Nomos Verlag, teve sua primeira tradução para a língua portuguesa realizada pela KAS Brasil, com o apoio de diversos parceiros locais: Editora da PUCRS, o Centro de Estudos Europeus e Alemães (CDEA) do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência...

This research is based on theories of federalized party systems, second-order elections and nationalization of party system comparing long-established democratic federations in terms of actual autonomy of their subnational party systems. The study shows that despite obvious prerequisites for...

"Après une première édition fort bien accueillie, la deuxième mouture de La politique québécoise et canadienne entend élargir la perspective de la fédération canadienne en mettant l'accent sur les acteurs, les institutions et les sociétés qui lui donnent toute sa vitalité. Le...

Using a new dataset of roll-call votes from the Mexican Congress, we explore the transformation of that country's legislative party system. Analyzing ideal points, dimensionality, and party cohesion, We show how after the fall of the ruling PRI, the ideological space shifted from cleavages on...