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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"party competition"”.
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Party competition in recent Japanese elections
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 W35
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Party competition in recent Japanese elections
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 W35
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
… democracies. The thesis contends that ethnic party success is primarily driven by insecurities borne from ethnic violence. Original data from fieldwork in India provides evidence that demand for security from ethnic violence stimulates bloc voting and remains a stronger motivator driving …
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Developing methods for understanding the nature of voting patterns and party competition in Britain
… improve our understanding of voting patterns and party competition in Britain. The thesis comprises five sections, each of which relates to a particular research focus. The first and principal section describes the process of determining a new method for decomposing electoral bias for three-party …
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Israeli Coalition Governments: Formation and Duration (1949-1999)
… and external pressures. Low levels of party competition and the dominance of Mapai in the Israeli Knessets further contributed to the formation of large alliances. Post-1969, following the gradual decline of Labor’s electoral dominance, Israeli parties became further polarized and more …
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Why Go Democratic? Civil Service Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
… by taking into account the interplay between party competition and the modernization of state bureaucracy. In countries with party systems that display signs of institutionalization (e.g., low fragmentation and low volatility), there is little political patronage, as party competition is able …
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Why do European citizens support populism? A comparative study of demand-side and supply-side explanations
… (i.e., liberal institutional arrangements and party competition). The results show that, first, populist parties attract significant support from citizens perceiving socially marginalised, especially in wealthy and globalised contexts; whereas sociotropic concerns about economy do not lead to …
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Essays on Industrial Organization and Political Economy
… information. This paper identifies a novel ""party competition effect"" in a setting with two opposing parties. Compared with ""at large"" selection of candidates, party selection makes office-holders more willing to avoid extreme ideological stands, and this benefits voters of all ideologies."
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An explanation of declining voter turnout: the case of Richmond, Virginia, 1880-1913
… changes in voting, turnout, and political party competition took place. Many of these same scholars contend that the consequences of these changes, such as continuing low voter turnout, can be seen today. Yet, scholars have made very few efforts to connect what happened in the past to what …
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Alternattiva Demokratika and EU membership
… in 1989 as the first and only green political party in Malta. Its presence in the Maltese political scene has, however, mostly been characterised by its marginal position within national politics In fact, the green party's activism prior and during the 2003 EU referendum was largely ignored, …
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Hunger & Fury: The Political in Bosnia and Herzegovina
… rational-legal public administration and multi-party competition, the state in BiH has historically served to deny political agency to would-be citizens. The state in BiH has actively sought to eliminate civil society, in other words, and that therefore the defining political and social crises …
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Who's Attending the Party? Elections, Parties, and Democratization in Postcommunist States
… important political actors--PR methods promote party politics whereas SMD methods do not. A third phenomenon--significant numbers of ambitious office seekers who have no party affiliation competing in SMD elections--strongly suggests that political parties are the key intervening variable in the …
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Recruitment, rhetoric and reform : new labour's politicians and the transformation of British welfare provision
… top-down explanation, focusing on the role of party competition and a large change in the composition of the UK's Labour party, which originally set up the welfare state. As it increasingly recruited legislators from outside of the working-class, both its stance and rhetoric on welfare reform …
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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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Greene's resource theory of single party dominance
Single-party dominance (SPD) is a phenomenon that has puzzled many scholars within the field of political science, as it does not fit into the standard dichotomy of democracy versus dictatorship. Kenneth Greene’s Resource Theory seeks to explain prolonged electoral dominance in these systems by …
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The Success & Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux
… factors), and institutional as well as party organisational features (i.e. supply-side explanations). The analysis suggests that demand for right-wing populist parties is relatively constant across the Benelux region, whereas the supply of such parties has been weaker in Wallonia and …
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EMPHASIZING THE OPPONENTS' ISSUES. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE INCENTIVES AND OUTCOMES OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN EUROPE
… incentives and electoral outcomes of a specific party strategy: the emphasis of issues that not only fall outside the party’s ideological domain but that lie within the opponents’ one. The existing approaches on the matter have focused on the convergence of parties on the same issues while the …
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Of bureaucracies and motorways: administrative reform and infrastructure policy for national roads in Poland
… 3) foreign models of administration, and 4) party competition over the administration. The issue of politicization is found at the core of these alternatives for the following reasons: 1) Politicization was used as a mechanism to remove the old cadre early on, 2) EU conditionality sought to …
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Revenge of the Radical Right: Why Minority Accommodation Mobilizes Extremist Voting
… (1) Unlike current approaches that focus on competition between the extreme and mainstream parties, I emphasize dynamics between the radical right party and non- proximate parties that promote minority rights. (2) Several approaches argue that xenophobia drives support for the radical right, …
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When Do Party Leaders Democratize? Analyzing Three Reforms of Voter Registration and Candidate Selection
… hypotheses statistically: 1) the Democratic Party is interested in mobilizing the poor, 2) electoral competition enhances mobilization efforts by parties, and 3) liberal political culture promotes inclusive electoral institutions. All three hypotheses find some support in the empirical …
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