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Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020) (2024)
Journal Article

Political scientists have long been concerned that a popularly elected presidency may destabilize competitive party systems. We develop and test a new theory holding that the impact is more immediate and severe than previously assumed. Coexisting leg... Read More about Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020).

Party and Party System Institutionalization: Which Comes First? (2023)
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Parties and party systems are treated as separate phenomena in theory, but not in research practice. This is most clearly so in the literature on the institutionalization of party politics, where the party level and the systemic levels are often anal... Read More about Party and Party System Institutionalization: Which Comes First?.

On the causes of electoral volatility in Asia since 1948 (2021)
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Electoral stability has been viewed as an essential condition for the healthy functioning of representative democracy. However, there is little agreement in the literature about what shapes the stability of the electorate in general nor much attentio... Read More about On the causes of electoral volatility in Asia since 1948.

Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics (2021)
Journal Article

Focusing on the relationship between the access of political parties to direct public funding and electoral support for anti-political-establishment (e.g. populist, extremist) parties (APEp), this article tries to fill an important gap in the literat... Read More about Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics.

The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Volatility is a widely used term in political science, but even the most widely used measure of volatility, Pedersen's index, can mask as much as it reveals. His simple and elegant calculation has become part of the political scie... Read More about The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares.

Parties between thresholds: State subsidies and party behaviour in post-communist democracies (2017)
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Much has been written about what makes political parties form, persist, change and die. One factor often brought into this discussion is the availability of resources in general and of state financing of political parties in particular. However, an e... Read More about Parties between thresholds: State subsidies and party behaviour in post-communist democracies.

Prescribing democracy? Party proscription and party system stability in Germany, Spain and Turkey (2016)
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© 2016 European Consortium for Political Research When democracies ban political parties, one of the central issues that usually emerges in both public and academic debate concerns the effects of proscription. Some argue that proscription may lead to... Read More about Prescribing democracy? Party proscription and party system stability in Germany, Spain and Turkey.

Political parties or party systems? Assessing the ‘myth’ of institutionalisation and democracy (2016)
Journal Article

No matter the region of the world under study, party (system) institutionalisation has been traditionally considered to be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the survival of democracy. Despite being one of the most quoted statements in th... Read More about Political parties or party systems? Assessing the ‘myth’ of institutionalisation and democracy.

It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization (2015)
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Although much has been written about the process of party system insti- tutionalization in different regions, the reasons why some party systems institutionalize while others do not still remain a mystery. Seeking to fill this lacuna in the literatur... Read More about It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization.

Party system closure and openness: Conceptualization, operationalization and validation (2014)
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The degree of closure of the governmental arena is a central aspect of the stabilization of party systems, and yet little systematic effort has been devoted to its operationalization. The article proposes a new index, examines its reliability and val... Read More about Party system closure and openness: Conceptualization, operationalization and validation.