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Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis
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The article was published on 2016-08-04 and is currently open access. It has received 2235 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Trusted third party.read more
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Confrontation still? Examining parties’ policy positions in Greece
Konstantinos Gemenis,Elias Dinas +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a different coding methodology whose departure point is that party competition is still a matter of direct confrontation between parties, and measure the positions of Greek parties on three issue dimensions: level of state intervention in the economy, support towards the political integration of the European Union and common European cultural identity.
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The Choice of Spitzenkandidaten: A Comparative Analysis of the Europarties’ Selection Procedures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the selection procedures of Europarties, more particularly for their EC presidency candidates, a novelty of the 2014 European Parliament elections, based on the analysis of the procedures applied within the European People's Party (EPP), the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE), the European Green Party (EGP), and the European Left (EL).
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The `Third Wave' of Democracy in Eastern Europe Comparative Perspectives on Party Roles and Political Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of parties in the early stages of democratization in eastern Europe, and their role has been a highly central but limited one in the politics of the region overall.
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As a Matter of Factions: The Budgetary Implications of Shifting Factional Control in Japan’s LDP
TL;DR: This paper found that strong correlations do exist between which factions comprise the agenda-setting party mainstream and how the government allocates spending across pork-barrel and public goods items, which runs contrary to the conventional wisdom expressed in the voluminous literature on LDP factions, which asserts that factions, whatever their raison d'etre, do not exhibit different policy preferences.
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Political Stability of Two-Party and Multiparty Systems: Probabilistic Bases for the Comparison of Party Systems
TL;DR: In this article, the stability of the American two-party system is examined from 1866 until 1980, and the authors show that cabinet durabilities on the order of those found in two parties can be achieved by means of a 44-55 percentage of the legislative seats won by the first party in a multiparty system.