Chapter · October 22, 2024
The subject of institutions and political parties involves two objects of analysis and their relationship. The first is the institutionalization of parties and party systems themselves and the political performance they deliver in democratic polities. The ...
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Journal ArticlePolitics and Society · December 1, 2023
This article proposes a framework to analyze realignment processes in countries that transition from industrial to knowledge societies. It characterizes the electorate in terms of two traits that are main predictors for attitudes in a two-dimensional polic ...
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Journal ArticleDemocratization · January 2, 2020
This article explains the varieties of clientelistic vote exchange in contemporary electoral democracies. It distinguishes two commonly recognized modes of exchange according to their capacity to overcome the problem of opportunism–relational clientelism a ...
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Journal ArticlePolitics and Society · September 1, 2019
White American voters have realigned among the two dominant parties by income and education levels. This article argues that the interaction of education and income provides a more insightful—and stark—display of this change than treating them individually ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
In some countries, electoral competition predominantly revolves around redistributional questions (“first-dimension politics”), while in other countries, issues related to cultural matters (guns, gays, and god) or immigration play a more dominant role (“se ...
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Chapter · 2015
The paper explains where and why Latin American voters build clientelistic linkages to parties, and why sometimes, but not always, parties make efforts to provide clientelistic targeted goods to voters that remain unreciprocated by voters’ partisan choices ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
In the concluding chapter of the 1999 volume Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, the then-editors affirmed that the most challenging part of the characterization of contemporary capitalism is to determine “how the cross-sectional patterns of ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
We began this project spurred by our skepticism of diagnostics proclaiming the convergence in terms of outcomes and policy among advanced industrial societies, a view only invigorated by the financial crisis that began in the fall of 2007. In this interpre ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
Changes in the occupational structure and political economy of advanced capitalism, explained in Daniel Oesch’s chapter in this volume, and related shifts in the formation of political mass preferences, examined by Silja Häusermann and Hanspeter Kriesi in ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Studies · October 11, 2014
Political preferences are multi-dimensional, covering topics like redistribution, immigration, and abortion. But what accounts for people’s political preferences? We argue that an individual’s work experiences on the job play an important part in shaping a ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Studies · November 1, 2013
This article examines the relationship among a country's democratic experience, its level of economic development, and the prevalence of clientelistic and programmatic modes of democratic accountability. In contrast to the commonly accepted wisdom that cli ...
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Chapter · 2013
Examines rival theories of party system change in postindustrial capitalism and provides evidence that realignment theories are most consistent with the data. ...
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Chapter · 2012
The paper provides a textbook style overview of theories of party competition and citizen-politician linkage and principal-agent relations. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Introduction A sensible discussion of the strategic opportunities for growth as well as containment of the radical right in post-industrial democracies and those surrounding them (i.e., Central and Eastern Europe) requires an adequate conceptualization of ...
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Journal ArticleWest European Politics · May 1, 2010
The research papers assembled in this West European Politics issue are placed in an encompassing framework specifying components of the electoral and party studies research area. This makes it possible to identify complementarities, conflicts, and empty sp ...
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Book · January 1, 2010
Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built around clientelistic networks to the establishment of sophisticated program ...
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Journal ArticleCommunist and Post-Communist Studies. · October 2009
We investigate the effect of welfare state retrenchment on vote support for radical right parties in the 2000s. In countries with a legacy of national accommodative communism, early differentiation of major parties on socio-cultural issues and strategies o ...
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Chapter · April 2009
The paper reconstructs the development of the field of comparative political economy since the early 1980s as a steady complexification of theoretical models to increase the empirical explanatory reach of analysis. ...
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Journal ArticleRevista de Ciencia Politica · January 1, 2009
In this paper, we report on a new dataset based on expert surveys carried out in nearly 90 countries around the world. This dataset helps to overcome the limited existence of cross-national data on democratic linkage mechanisms between citizens and politic ...
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Chapter · 2008
The paper specifies modes of political participation and then analyzes determinants of different forms of participation with both macro-level as well as micro-level variables. ...
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Journal ArticleWest European Politics · October 2007
The paper discusses the conceptualization of radical right wing parties. It then defends supply side explanations that focus on the convergence of conventional left and right parties as a condition that enables political entrepreneurs to create new elector ...
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Book · January 1, 2007
Most models of party competition assume that citizens vote for a platform rather than narrowly targeted material benefits. However, there are many countries where politicians win elections by giving money, jobs, and services in direct exchange for votes. T ...
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Chapter · 2007
This paper reviews the voluminous literature on the concept of party system and discusses theories of party system dynamics. While a handbook article, it makes an original contribution in proposing a new theoretical approach to the concept of "competitiven ...
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Journal ArticleRevista Española de Ciencia Política · April 2004
Revista Española de Ciencia Política. Núm.
10, Abril 2004, pp. 9-51
Diversificación y reconfiguración
de los sistemas de partidos
de las democracias postindustriales * **
Herbert Kitschelt HERBERT KITSCHELT
DIVERSIFICACIÓN Y RECONFIGURACIÓN DE LOS
SISTE ...
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Book · February 5, 2004
Basic institutions and political power configurations that contributed to Germany's post-war social and economic success turned from assets into liabilities in the 1990s and beyond. This introduction highlights the emergence and interaction of the critical ...
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Chapter · February 5, 2004
With the intensifying crisis of the German political-economic model, federal elections signal the beginning of a polarising realignment that rallies beneficiaries of the status quo, particularly white collar employees in non-profit sectors, individuals wit ...
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Chapter · 2004
(no abstract in the book) The paper shows that European mass publics align their preferences over the desirability of European integration according to domestic political-economic institutions and ideological divides in the party systems. ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Politics and Society · 2004
Islamist terrorism is a response to
predatory regimes which no longer have the
means to co-opt their opponents and resort
to repression rather than negotiated
concessions. This type of regime is
widespread in the Middle East, not least due
to the reg ...
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Journal ArticleWest European Politics · October 1, 2003
Basic institutions and political power configurations that contributed to Germany's post-war social and economic success turned from assets into liabilities in the 1990s and beyond. This introduction highlights the emergence and interaction of the critical ...
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Journal ArticleParty Politics · 2000
reprinted in: Stephen White and Daniel Nelson, eds., The Politcs of the Post-Communist World, Volume I. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000 ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Journal of Political Research · January 1, 2000
This paper critiques what can be interpreted as an application of the literature on state failure in current political economy and political science to the changing role of political parties in advanced post-industrial democracies. Katz and Mair's theory o ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Studies · January 1, 2000
Research on democratic party competition in the formal spatial tradition of Downs and the comparative-historical tradition of Lipset and Rokkan assumes that linkages of accountability and responsiveness between voters and political elites work through poli ...
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Book · August 13, 1999
This study examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Studies · January 1, 1994
Socialists and social democrats have probably nowhere been better entrenched than in Austria and Sweden. Yet in both countries, they have suffered electoral defeats in the 1980s and early 1990s, just as socialists in many other West European nations. Chang ...
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