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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"party change"”.
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Devolution and party change in the Scottish and Welsh Conservative Parties, 1997-2011
… branches of the statewide UK Conservative Party in Scotland and Wales between 1997 and 2011. It uses a comparative analytical framework derived from the literature on party change, multi-level party politics and path dependency. Both parties had to change to accommodate the Scottish …
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The British Labour Party in Opposition, 1979-1997: Structures, Agency, and Party Change
The British Labour Party has spent eighteen years in opposition since 1979. During that time it lost four consecutive general elections to the Conservative Party. In 1997, however, it now looks set to win its first election since 1974. This thesis examines the Labour Party in opposition since 1979, …
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Neišpildytos separatistinės ambicijos bei vidinės (de)stabilizacijos požymiai: SNP partijos atvejo studija /
… Scottish independence referendum affected the changes and subsequent difficulties experienced by the Scottish National Party (SNP). The research employs extreme case study and theory-testing process tracing methods to examine SNP party change over the period of 2014-2023. Utilising an …
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European Integration and the Political Transformation of the British Labour Party and the German SPD from the Mid-1980s until the 2010s
… aims to examine the impact of the British Labour Party and the *Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands* ('Social Democratic Party of Germany' or the SPD)’s engagement in European integration on their political transformation. Labour and the SPD, two of the most prominent centre-left parties in …
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Party Novelty and Economic Voting: A Comparative Study of the EU Elections 1989-2009
… such as the clarity of responsibility index, and party level variables, such as the number of seats a party occupies in a government. This dissertation suggests that the responsibility for the government policies can be obscured by yet another party level variable - party novelty. I define party …
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The battle to stem the tide of decline
… core aim is to understand the role that intra-party factionalism has in two major social democratic parties – the Labour Party and the SPD, respectively – on the parties’ responses to electoral decline. To so do, a review of the changing social, political, economic and electoral environment …
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Shifts in Political Environment and Industry Momentum: Evidence from Global Stock Markets
This paper aims to examine whether shifts in the political environment can explain industry momentum profits in global stock markets. In the U.S., Canada and Australia, I find that the politically consistent momentum strategy, which takes a long position in industries that are both winners and …