M Donovan, D Broughton - … Party Systems in Western Europe. London …, 1999 - torrossa.com
Party systems are central to the functioning of modern representative democracies. It is scarcely exaggerated to say that no aspect of contemporary politics is uninfluenced by them …
P Pennings, JE Lane - 1998 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Until the end of the 1980s most party systems were stable and reflected the structures of the pre-war period. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall there have been many forms of party system …
This book is written for several different readerships. First, it is for scholars working on party system change, electoral studies and political representation. Second, it is aimed at both …
After two decades of parliamentary democracy, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have quite different records of government stability. At the same time there continues …
J Toole - Party Politics, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
The stabilization of party systems in new democracies is commonly assumed to be a lengthy process. Applying Peter Mair's government-formation-based model of party system …
E Borbáth - Party Politics, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite extensive research on party system stability, the concept is often reduced to the survival of existing parties. This article argues for introducing programmatic stability as a …
P Mair - Handbook of party politics, 2006 - torrossa.com
Peter Mair rather than of kind, and hence party system change is a continuous phenomenon. It is also a confusing phenomenon, since these particular summary measures conflate …
The recent global financial crisis has been a serious stress test for representative democracies. Voter support has supposedly become more volatile, fragmented, and …