PARTY SYSTEM INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND PARTY SYSTEM THEORY 205 party
systems are more vulnerable to allowing anti-party politicians to come to power. Many such …

Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over
time? How do people talk about politics with friends and neighbours, and with what effect …

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 …

This article explores Christian Democratic electoral decline in the 1990s through an
examination of the key problems faced by the CDU, the ÖVP and the CDA. Although the …

Seymour‐Ure introduced the concept of 'press–party parallelism'(PPP) into mass media
studies in The Political Impact of Mass Media (Constable/Sage, 1974). This concept …

Theories of voting tell us that party vote dynamics have two core components, long-run
equilibria and more or less rapid returns to equilibria after short-run deviations. Statistical …

In the heat of an election campaign pollsters often warn us that nothing is sure yet: their poll
results are only a snapshot and, more important, a large segment of the electorate has not …

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the political behavior and party preferences of the voters
at the 3 November 2002 elections in terms of the concept “New Political Behavior”. The …