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Dennis Leech - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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duverger s law penrose s power index and the unity of the uk
Political Studies, 2005Co-Authors: Iain Mclean, Alistair Mcmillan, Dennis LeechAbstract:As predicted by Duverger's Law, the UK has had two-Party Competition for long periods in most electoral districts. However, there are different patterns of two-Party Competition in different districts and more than two effective parties in the Commons. Since 1874, parliament has always contained parties wishing to modify the Union and contesting seats only outside England. By calculating the Penrose power index for all parties in the House of Commons for all general elections since 1874, we identify when such parties were pivotal. We explain various legislative changes (for example the Crofters Act 1886, the first three Irish Home Rule Bills, the Parliament Act 1911) and non-changes (for example the failure to enact female suffrage before 1914) by reference to the Penrose index scores. The scores also explain how and why policy towards Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland changed and did not change in the 1970s.
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duverger s law penrose s power index and the unity of the united kingdom
2005Co-Authors: Iain Mclean, Alistair Mcmillan, Dennis LeechAbstract:As predicted by Duverger’s Law, the UK has two-Party Competition in each electoral district. However, there can be different patterns of two-Party Competition in different districts (currently there are five), so that there have usually been more than two effective parties in the Commons. Since 1874 it has always contained parties fighting seats in only one of the non-English parts of the Union. These parties wish to change the Union by strengthening, weakening, or dissolving it. By calculating the Penrose power index for all parties in the House of Commons for all General Elections since 1874, we identify the occasions on which a Party that wished to modify the Union was pivotal. We explain various acts (e.g, the Crofters Act 1886; the first three Irish Home Rule Bills; the Parliament Act 1911) and non-acts (e.g. the failure to enact female suffrage before 1914) by reference to the Penrose indices of the non-English parties. The indices also explain how and why policy towards Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland changed, and did not change, in the 1970s.
Anna Grzymalabusse - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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consequences of authoritarian Party exit and reinvention for democratic Competition
Comparative Political Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Anna GrzymalabusseAbstract:How do the successors to authoritarian ruling parties influence subsequent democratic Party Competition? The existing literature does not distinguish among these parties, nor does it differentiate ...
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rebuilding leviathan Party Competition and state exploitation in post communist democracies
Slavic Review, 2007Co-Authors: Anna GrzymalabusseAbstract:Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of Party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically reconstructed the state - simultaneously exploiting it by extracting state resources and building new institutions that further such extraction. They enfeebled or delayed formal state institutions of monitoring and oversight, established new discretionary structures of state administration, and extracted enormous informal profits from the privatization of the communist economy. By examining how post-communist political parties rebuilt the state in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, Grzymala-Busse explains how even opportunistic political parties will limit their corrupt behaviour and abuse of state resources when faced with strong political Competition.
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rebuilding leviathan Party Competition and state exploitation in post communist democracies
Slavic Review, 2007Co-Authors: Anna GrzymalabusseAbstract:1. Introduction 2. Competing for the state 3. Developing the formal institutions of the state 4. The expansion of state administration: exploitation or patronage? 5. Privatizing the state: Party financing strategies.
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authoritarian determinants of democratic Party Competition the communist successor parties in east central europe
Party Politics, 2006Co-Authors: Anna GrzymalabusseAbstract:The remarkable trajectories of transformation of the communist successor parties have been the focus of research since the collapse of communism. In contrast, the impact of these different outcomes, the ways in which communist successors adapted to democracy and transformed their organization, has been neglected. In this article, I argue that communist transformation played a crucial role in the formation of a strong and robust Party opposition which could constrain rentseeking and lead to the rise of a stronger institutional framework.
Jan Rovny - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Issue dimensionality and Party Competition in turbulent times
Party Politics, 2019Co-Authors: Jan Rovny, Stephen WhitefieldAbstract:Table of contents: Issue dimensionality and Party Competition in turbulent times. Jan Rovny and Stephen Whitefield. New wine in old bottles: Explaining the dimensional structure of European Party systems. Jan Rovny and Jonathan Polk. Embedding integration: How European integration splits mainstream parties. Stephen Whitefield and Robert Rohrschneider. Economic internationalization and the decline of the left–right dimension. Emiliano Grossman and Nicolas Sauger. Economic performance and center-periphery conflicts in Party Competition. Sergi Pardos-Prado and In˜aki Sagarzazu. Sweeping it under the rug: How government parties deal with deteriorating economic conditions. Catherine E De Vries and Hector Solaz. Immigration, Euroscepticism, and the rise and fall of UKIP. Geoffrey Evans and Jonathan Mellon. Book reviews: Coping with Complexity: How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties. Dani Marinova, reviewed by Bartek Pytlas. Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign. Frances E Lee, reviewed by Bruce Larson. Split-Ticket Voting in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: A Theoretical and Methodological Investigation. Carolina Plescia, reviewed by Julian Bernauer. Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities. Kristof Jacobs and Niels Spierings, reviewed by James Dennis. Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots. Edward Aspinall and Mada Sukmajati (eds), reviewed by Dirk Tomsa.
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riker and rokkan remarks on the strategy and structure of Party Competition
Party Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Jan RovnyAbstract:This special issue studies the strategic interaction between major state-wide and regional parties in a political setting defined by multiple, potentially cross-cutting, political issues pertaining to the economy and the territorial organization of multi-national states. Through this framework, this special issue locates itself decisively in the behaviorist tradition of studying political Competition. Stemming from the classical works of Riker and the Rochester school, and focusing on rational choice models, this tradition has influenced a lively literature on Party strategies. This concluding article of the special issue argues that the findings of the substantive contributions create a bridge between the strategic, Rikerian literature they stem from and seek to engage with, and more sociological approaches to the study of political parties that focus on the structural features of politics reaching back to the works of Lipset and Rokkan. I suggest that, ultimately, this special issue demonstrates the soc...
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Party Competition structure in eastern europe aggregate uniformity versus idiosyncratic diversity
East European Politics and Societies, 2015Co-Authors: Jan RovnyAbstract:The literature on Party Competition structure in eastern Europe varies between aggregated large-N studies that propose uniform patterns of Party Competition across the region on the one hand, and d...
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Communism, Federalism, and Ethnic Minorities: Explaining Party Competition Patterns in Eastern Europe
World Politics, 2014Co-Authors: Jan RovnyAbstract:Scholarship on East European politics expects that Party Competition in the region is determined by various communist legacies, juxtaposing state-centric authoritarianism to a liberal market economy. Recent empirical evidence, however, uncovers significant variance of Party Competition patterns across East European countries. To explain this variance, this article argues that an interaction between communist institutional framework and partisan responses to ethnic minorities determines Party Competition structure in the region. While experience with communist federalism determines partisan affinities with ethnic minorities, tolerance or support for ethnic minorities leads the political actors associated with those minorities to general socially liberal positions. Consequently—and contrary to received knowledge—ethnic politics influence the ideological content of Party Competition and structure Party systems in Eastern Europe.
Erica Edwards - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Party Competition and european integration in the east and west different structure same causality
Comparative Political Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Moira Nelson, Erica EdwardsAbstract:How does the ideological profile of a political Party affect its support or opposition to European integration? The authors investigate this question with a new expert data set on Party positioning on European integration covering 171 political parties in 23 countries. The authors' findings are (a) that basic structures of Party Competition in the East and West are fundamentally and explicably different and (b) that although the positions that parties in the East and West take on European integration are substantively different, they share a single underlying causality. © 2006 SAGE Publications.
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Party Competition and european integration in the east and west different structure same causality
Comparative Political Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Moira Nelson, Erica EdwardsAbstract:How does the ideological profile of a political Party affect its support or opposition to European integration? The authors investigate this question with a new expert data set on Party positioning on European integration covering 171 political parties in 23 countries. The authors’ findings are (a) that basic structures of Party Competition in the East and West are fundamentally and explicably different and (b) that although the positions that parties in the East and West take on European integration are substantively different, they share a single underlying causality.
Iain Mclean - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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duverger s law penrose s power index and the unity of the uk
Political Studies, 2005Co-Authors: Iain Mclean, Alistair Mcmillan, Dennis LeechAbstract:As predicted by Duverger's Law, the UK has had two-Party Competition for long periods in most electoral districts. However, there are different patterns of two-Party Competition in different districts and more than two effective parties in the Commons. Since 1874, parliament has always contained parties wishing to modify the Union and contesting seats only outside England. By calculating the Penrose power index for all parties in the House of Commons for all general elections since 1874, we identify when such parties were pivotal. We explain various legislative changes (for example the Crofters Act 1886, the first three Irish Home Rule Bills, the Parliament Act 1911) and non-changes (for example the failure to enact female suffrage before 1914) by reference to the Penrose index scores. The scores also explain how and why policy towards Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland changed and did not change in the 1970s.
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duverger s law penrose s power index and the unity of the united kingdom
2005Co-Authors: Iain Mclean, Alistair Mcmillan, Dennis LeechAbstract:As predicted by Duverger’s Law, the UK has two-Party Competition in each electoral district. However, there can be different patterns of two-Party Competition in different districts (currently there are five), so that there have usually been more than two effective parties in the Commons. Since 1874 it has always contained parties fighting seats in only one of the non-English parts of the Union. These parties wish to change the Union by strengthening, weakening, or dissolving it. By calculating the Penrose power index for all parties in the House of Commons for all General Elections since 1874, we identify the occasions on which a Party that wished to modify the Union was pivotal. We explain various acts (e.g, the Crofters Act 1886; the first three Irish Home Rule Bills; the Parliament Act 1911) and non-acts (e.g. the failure to enact female suffrage before 1914) by reference to the Penrose indices of the non-English parties. The indices also explain how and why policy towards Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland changed, and did not change, in the 1970s.