… 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…

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… partisanship, and party identification in Africa, we turn our attention to its political consequences
… Nie (1972), we examine the effect of partisanship on voting, campaigning, communing, …

… The authors of this new book invited us to contribute a foreword that reflects on our initial
findings and discusses the consequences of partisan dealignment on contemporary electoral …

… 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. …

… Recent work suggests that partisan dealignment should undermine political parties by
giving members of Parliament (MPs) greater incentives for personal vote seeking. The key …