Book section · 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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Book section · January 1, 2024
Why do voters accede to or abandon social democratic parties in the most recent decades? This chapter analyzes the reasons that motivate voters go choose among parties. Are spatial considerations coming into play, that is, do voters move to parties that ar ...
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Book section · January 1, 2024
This chapter provides an analytical framework for the empirical studies comprised in the volume. It starts by defining the relevant temporalities to study party strategies and sociostructural processes of electoral realignment. The chapter then develops th ...
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Book section · January 1, 2024
The relationship between social democratic parties and labor unions is of interest for the entire era of labor mobilization since the nineteenth century. The middle-class shift in the employment structure of West European countries, the emergence of second ...
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Book section · January 1, 2024
The concluding chapter first provides a brief summary of the main findings reported in the multiple complementary investigations on which this book reports. The second task of the conclusion to this volume is to address influential alternative accounts tha ...
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Book section · January 1, 2024
This chapter focuses on the electoral performance of social democratic parties in different institutional and competitive contexts. We explore three avenues to shed light on the relationship between social democratic parties' strategic interaction with com ...
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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · March 25, 2008
There are two main ways of distinguishing parties from other techniques for pursuing political objectives: institutional definitions emphasize the arena in which collective political action takes place; functional definitions see parties as political allia ...
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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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