The four Southern European democracies reveal greatly differing patterns of electoral volatility: the Spanish party system underwent a profound restructuring as a result of the "electoral earthquake " of 1982, but has become outstandingly stable since then; the Italian party system had been impressively stable from the 1950s until 1992, but then underwent a complete transformation. But despite the extremely high levels of "total volatility " exhibited by these two party systems, very few voters crossed over the divide separating parties of the left from the right. In contrast, both the Greek and Portuguese party systems have frequently exhibited high levels of "inter-bloc " volatility. What explains these diff...
Electoral volatility is generally believed to be increasing in West European democracies, while the ...
Sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).This acclaimed text on comparativ...
The defining properties of party identification long established for the United States fail with som...
M.16879-2000 Richard Gunther and José Ramón Montero. 30 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p....
In the literature on electoral volatility and party defection, structural elements have been put for...
Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In thes...
Political parties play a crucial role in interest articulation and aggregation in modern mass democr...
We investigate differences in the factors influencing citizens’ votes between elections conducted in...
The presence of electoral volatility, and the fact that voters can change parties from one election ...
How can electoral volatility in the new European democracies be explained? This book proposes an ins...
UID/CPO/04627/2013This study seeks to improve the current conceptualisation of partisanship and to p...
Outside the US, the crucial question of how well politicians represent the preferences of voters is ...
Since the "defreezing" of traditional cleavages and the following dealignment, electoral volatility ...
There is no doubt that partisanship is a powerful influence on democratic political behavior. But th...
There is growing literature on an increasingly ubiquitous puzzle in many democratic countries: why d...
Electoral volatility is generally believed to be increasing in West European democracies, while the ...
Sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).This acclaimed text on comparativ...
The defining properties of party identification long established for the United States fail with som...
M.16879-2000 Richard Gunther and José Ramón Montero. 30 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p....
In the literature on electoral volatility and party defection, structural elements have been put for...
Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In thes...
Political parties play a crucial role in interest articulation and aggregation in modern mass democr...
We investigate differences in the factors influencing citizens’ votes between elections conducted in...
The presence of electoral volatility, and the fact that voters can change parties from one election ...
How can electoral volatility in the new European democracies be explained? This book proposes an ins...
UID/CPO/04627/2013This study seeks to improve the current conceptualisation of partisanship and to p...
Outside the US, the crucial question of how well politicians represent the preferences of voters is ...
Since the "defreezing" of traditional cleavages and the following dealignment, electoral volatility ...
There is no doubt that partisanship is a powerful influence on democratic political behavior. But th...
There is growing literature on an increasingly ubiquitous puzzle in many democratic countries: why d...
Electoral volatility is generally believed to be increasing in West European democracies, while the ...
Sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).This acclaimed text on comparativ...
The defining properties of party identification long established for the United States fail with som...