Robert Harmel

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory that seeks to explain why parties change their political strategies, organizational characteristics and issue positions, which is based on a discursive section which suggests that change does not ''just happen'' but instead results from leadership change, a change of dominant faction within the party, and/or an external stimulus for change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the universe of 233 new parties formed in 19 West European and Anglo-American democracies from 1960 through 1980, using data on those parties to address several hypothesees.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the truth of the common assumption that political parties often try to change their images following a disastrous election defeat, through a systechological approach, and show that this is not the case.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the first empirical findings based on data from a major study of party change, linking party change to both internal and external factors, and suggest that the burgeoning field of theoretical and empirical work on party change should focus even more attention on internal decision-making processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present empirical evidence for the argument that different leadership needs exist at three stages of party development: the periods of identification, organisation, and stabilisation, from the experiences of entrepreneurial parties in Denmark and Norway.