Party System Institutionalization, Predictability, and Democracy

2018 ◽  
pp. 71-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Mainwaring
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Party System Institutionalization

A New European Dataset and the Measurement of Party System Closure

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-51
Author(s):  
Fernando Casal Bértoa ◽  
Zsolt Enyedi
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Electoral Volatility ◽  
Volatility Index ◽  
Units Of Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Principal Tool ◽  
Party System Institutionalization

The second chapter introduces the dataset of the book, defines its units of measurement, and operationalizes its key concepts. We discuss the method of creating our principal tool of analysis, the composite closure index. We reflect in detail on the question of how experiences accumulated through time can be taken into account when measuring stability. Finally, in a validation exercise, we also investigate whether our closure index could have been used to predict which democracies collapsed around the world between the two World Wars. With this exercise we also show that closure is a better proxy for party system institutionalization than the more traditionally used indicator, the electoral volatility index.

Party system types and party system institutionalization

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurel Croissant ◽  
Philip Völkel
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Party System Institutionalization

Periodization and Party System Institutionalization in Latin America: A Reply to Mainwaring

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Party System ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Political Incorporation ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Party System Institutionalization ◽  
Partisan Competition

The study of party system institutionalization in Latin America is complicated by the fact that political development in the region has been indelibly marked by period-specific stages and challenges of capitalist development. These periods are associated with distinct patterns of social mobilization, class conflict and political incorporation or exclusion of labour and popular constituencies. These patterns heavily condition the programmatic structuring of partisan competition and its impact on party system institutionalization. Important theoretical insights can be derived from the study of intra-regional variation in period-specific challenges and effects, but this requires careful attention to the factors that differentiate cases.

Party manifestos in newer party systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-313
Author(s):  
Annabella España-Nájera
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Research Note ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Party Manifestos ◽  
Party System Institutionalization ◽  
Method Of Production

This research note analyses the role that party manifestos play in El Salvador and Guatemala, two newer democracies. In recent elections, the importance of manifestos has increased in both systems. This study examines this development. It explores the ‘ why’s’ (purpose) and ‘ how’s’ (the method of production) of party manifestos to learn more about the internal workings of parties and their relationship with society. The findings from this study suggest that in new democracies, international party assistance programmes can play a crucial role in making manifestos relevant. Whether manifestos enhance democracy in the long term, however, depends on party system institutionalization. These results point to an opportunity for research in new and younger party systems.

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