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Center for the Study of Democracy
Nonprofit•Sofia, Bulgaria•
About: Center for the Study of Democracy is a nonprofit organization based out in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Democracy. The organization has 63 authors who have published 163 publications receiving 2845 citations.
Topics: Politics, Democracy, European union, Context (language use), Population
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TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between the traditional left/right economic cleavage and the environmental cleavage in structuring party competition in advanced industrial democracies and found that the convergence occurs largely because of changes by Green parties and by the addition of new parties that define themselves on both dimensions.
Abstract: ‘We are neither Left nor Right, we are out in front’ was the mantra of the environmental movement in the 1970s and early 1980s. This research examines the relationship between the traditional left/right economic cleavage and the environmental cleavage in structuring party competition in advanced industrial democracies. It begins by discussing the theoretical rationale for the separation of environmentalism from the traditional economic cleavage, and utilises new expert data to describe the evolution of party positions between 1989 and 2002–2003. An initially strong relationship between party positions on both dimensions in 1989 has strengthened over time. The convergence occurs largely because of changes by Green parties and by the addition of new parties that define themselves on both dimensions. This points to the ability of democratic party systems to integrate a new political cleavage, and the process of integration. However, leftist parties still continue to diverge with respect to how they respond to the environmental cleavage.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the views of citizens and party elites on a diverse set of domestic policy issues and overall Left-Right identities, and find very high levels of congruence for left-right positions and socio-economic issues.
Abstract: Issue congruence between citizens and policy makers should be one of the central aspects of a democratic process. This study uses the 2009 European Election Study to compare the views of citizens and party elites on a diverse set of domestic policy issues and overall Left-Right identities. We find very high levels of congruence for Left-Right positions and socio-economic issues. Parties are less representative of their supporters on the newer cultural issues of immigration and authority, as well as gender issues. National political contexts have limited influence on congruence levels, although some party characteristics such as political extremism or party family are linked to citizen-voter agreement. On the whole, citizens and like-minded parties do connect through the electoral process to a high degree. However, the results also argue for a multidimensional approach to assessing representation to recognize where parties agree and deviate from their supporters.
72 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify six properties that any index of competition should satisfy and then offer a new measure that satisfies all six properties which is applicable to virtually any electoral rule.
59 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors track the distribution of party mobilization and cognitive mobilization within the German electorate from 1976 until 2009 and demonstrate the importance of these mobilization patterns by documenting strong differences in electoral commitment, the content of political thinking, and electoral change.
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TL;DR: In this paper, two dimensions of environmental activism are described: environmental political activity and conservation behavior, and the correlates of these changes suggest that broad societal forces produced these trends, since most social groups follow these same trends, although some evidence was found of increased partisan polarization in Green activism.
Abstract: Is environmental action waxing or waning? Using the environmental modules of the International Social Survey Program from 1993, 2000, and 2010, two dimensions of environmental activism are described: environmental political activity and conservation behavior. Political activity has generally decreased, but in contrast, conservation behavior has become more common over the same time span. The correlates of these changes suggest that broad societal forces produced these trends, since most social groups follow these same trends, although some evidence was found of increased partisan polarization in Green activism.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Ronald Inglehart | 79 | 301 | 60019 |
Russell J. Dalton | 62 | 172 | 18534 |
Bernard Grofman | 57 | 382 | 11713 |
Richard R. Lau | 43 | 74 | 9191 |
Jens Newig | 42 | 135 | 7680 |
Christian Welzel | 39 | 188 | 10768 |
Chantal Mouffe | 39 | 101 | 26592 |
Doh Chull Shin | 23 | 85 | 3201 |
Amy C. Alexander | 14 | 41 | 952 |
Tobias Lenz | 13 | 37 | 620 |
Vera van Hüllen | 12 | 31 | 452 |
Thomas Saretzki | 11 | 42 | 416 |
Philipp Harfst | 10 | 24 | 264 |
Peter Miller | 10 | 22 | 429 |
Michael Koß | 9 | 32 | 291 |