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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Party system"”.
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Party system institutionalization and nationalization in dominant party systems
The processes of party system institutionalization and nationalization are believed to be positively interrelated with democratic development and party system consolidation. The goal of this dissertation is to examine the influence of dominant parties on party system institutionalization and …
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Migration, nativism, and party system change in Western Europe
… ("niche") parties in previously stable party systems. I find that a key mechanism of niche party growth is the re-weighting of issue priorities or social identities generated by unanticipated, high impact events, such as a severe economic downturn, terror attack or ethnic riot. These …
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State Political Parties in American Politics: Innovation and Integration in the Party System
<p>What role do state party organizations play in twenty-first century American politics? What is the nature of the relationship between the state and national party organizations in contemporary elections? These questions frame the three studies presented in this dissertation. More specifically, I …
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Playing in the Margins: Collaboration Between Local Party Organizations in the Canadian Party System
Collaboration between local party organizations is a peculiar organizational trait for Canadian political parties. It is peculiar because local party organizations were once conceived to be solely concerned with electoral activities in their own district, while central parties helped local …
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Party System Competition and *Representation: Democratization and Redemocratization in Chile From a Comparative Perspective
In departing from most studies of parties and party systems, this work proposes a novel conception of party systems that focuses on patterns of competition and representation. In seeking to explain the origins and transformations of these particular patterns in Latin America, I take a long-term …
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Community carrots and social sticks : why the poor vote in a dominant-party system
In dominant-party states, why do individuals vote in elections with foregone conclusions when they are neither bought nor coerced? It is especially curious in these cases why the rural poor decide to cast their ballots. I posit that communities that collectively rely on the government for public …
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The role, nature and authority of the Legislature in Zambia's One-Party system of Government
… evaluate the effectiveness of the Zambia's one-party Legislature within its life time of Ten years from 1974 to 1984. The focus is on the concept of the Legislature and the one-party system of government, to try and discover whether Parliament is being used as an instrument of progressive social …
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Foucauldian Micropolitics and the Evolution of Party Polarization: Diverging Discourses in America's Two-Party System
… to the growing level of polarization at both the party level and within the American public, particularly since the late 1970's. Many scholars will either argue that elite polarization is representative of pre-existing, strongly felt political beliefs in the electorate, or that voters act on the …
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Alliances and Preferences: Party System Institutionalization's Potentially Intervening Role on Pre-Election Cooperation in Australia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea
… project examines the intervening role of party system institutionalization in determining the effect of electoral rules on the behavior of political parties. Highly institutionalized systems differ across multiple dimensions--supply stability, volatility of results, and rootedness of …
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Fear and Loathing in White, Working Class America: How Political Appeals to Individualism, Implicit Racism, and Religion have Polarized our Two-Party System
… other, contribute to misinformation, and uphold systemic inequity. This paper focuses on the values of the white, working class, as this group has been the target of many political codes and appeals throughout American history due to its ability to sway a voting body. Politicians have exploited …
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The Impact of the Party System Under Populism on Civil Society and the Media. – A Temporal Social Network Analysis of Civil Society Media and Mass Media in Post-Communist Hungary (1990–2020)
… of increasing centralisation during the party system under populism, the study finds a disintegration within the sample network, particularly among independent and opposition-aligned chief editors. The connectedness of the media elite network sample peaked in the mid-1990s and remained …
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Creating the modern South: political development in the Tar Heel State, 1945 to the present
… twentieth century, North Carolina's unique one-party system featured a spirited rivalry within the Democratic Party that was largely absent throughout the South. The political rivalry between conservative and progressive Democrats profoundly influenced the course of North Carolina's political …
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Rule of law and party systems : a study of regional political parties in India
Where do party systems come from? The first part of this dissertation argues that party system formation depends on the rule of law, which is defined as the extent to which the state uniformly implements and enforces its laws and policies. When the rule of law is weak, voters form attachments …
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One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies : The African National Congress and Indian National Congress in Comparative Perspective : A Study in Party Systems and Agency in Post-Colonial India and Post-Apartheid South Africa
… was the renewed interest in the role of party agency for the emergence and structuring of party systems that came up in the course of the discussions about the third wave of democracy and the concomitant challenges to the theoretical fundamentals of common party system theory. In …
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An exploration and critique of Katz and Mair's Cartel Party theory
… of attempts in recent years to categorise party systems. This work examines one such attempt at a new party type, Katz and Mair's cartel party theory, which was first proposed in 1995. It will initially approach the cartel party theory from a theoretical angle looking at the internal …
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The waning of the two giants: the electoral decline of the Italian Christian Democratic Party and the Italian Communist Party
… support for the Italian Christian Democratic Party (DC) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI), now the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). Signs of the electoral decline of both parties began to appear in the late 1970s and early 1980s and accelerated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The pr …
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Examining Contemporary Congressional Theories Historically: Essays on the Congress of the Confederate States of America
… essay investigates the causes behind the no-party structure in the Confederacy. I find that the absence of parties was in fact due to partisan activity within the Confederate Constitutional Convention. In short, Democrats used their majority status to prohibit, through Constitutional …
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