Our concern in this chapter is focused on the question of party and party system change in a
political system which, to a significant extent, is shaped by the presence of the political …

The Conservatives appear to have established a clear and consistent opinion poll lead over
the Labour government. Some would suggest that this change of fortunes is connected to …

America's two party system is highly stable, but its parties' issue positions are not. Democrats
and Republicans have changed sides on many subjects, including trade, civil rights …

Among the most important elements in assessing the cross‐national utility of the concept of
party identification is its stability over time, in particular its stability relative to that of voting …

Operationalized as a simulation and checked against 1,737 policy shifts in twenty-four post-
war democracies, this theory of party position-taking offers both an explanation and specific …

This article summarises the rapidly increasing number of studies dealing with parties'
positional changes. After a short introduction and a brief discussion of a number of …

This book is an updated version of my 2009 Habilitation treatise at the Otto von Guericke
University of Magdeburg, Germany. When I started working on the project some ten years …

In a recent re-evaluation of developments in European party systems, Paul Pennings has
criticized Sartori for inaccurately predicting trends in party competition in his original …

Despite extensive research on party identification, links between partisanship at the
individual and aggregate level have largely been ignored. This leaves a gap in our …

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for
anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the …