… Partisan dealignment is recurrently presented in the literature as one of the main drivers of …
dealignment. This article explores the longitudinal relationship between partisan dealignment…

… a process of partisan dealignment in democratic … to partisan dealignment. Specifically, we
focus on personal voting, the key feature of open-list PR, and we find that partisan dealignment …

… side’ explanations, partisan dealignment may be only one of several causes of electoral
volatility. Given these considerations, it seems preferable to measure partisanship directly, using …

… deliberately expanded in response to partisan dealignment. … debates about partisan
dealignment's likely consequences for … has explored dealignment's behavioural consequences in …

… structural or behavioural dealignment. Structural dealignment denotes changes in group size
responsible for a decrease in cleavage voting, whereas behavioural dealignment concerns …

… Or does partisanship … of partisan duty to capture the role of partisan social identities in the
turnout decision and present new empirical tests of the relationship between partisanship and …

… Partisan dealignment is the erosion of those patterns, while realignment is the emergence
of new ones. Consequently, alignments are about the congruence between voters’ …

… of party choice, we contribute to the literature on realignment and dealignment. On the one
hand, we see strong patterns of dealignment, as the effect of many long-term predictors of the …

… frustration from realignment theory to theories of dealignment and divided government to
explain … The aftershock, in turn, has consequences for dealignment theory. It suggests that voter …

… groups will emerge: negative party partisans, positive party partisans, positive independent
… identity value to them are not dealigned, but have rather aligned themselves with this identity. …