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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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Germany's Left Party.PDS and the ‘Vacuum Thesis’: From regional milieu party to left alternative?
TL;DR: In this article, it was argued that the PDS had begun to occupy an ideological void on the left of the German party system that had opened up with the rightward shift of the governing SPD and Greens.
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Beyond Democracy-Dictatorship Measures: A New Framework Capturing Executive Bases of Power, 1789-2016
Jan Teorell,Staffan I. Lindberg +1 more
TL;DR: This article proposed a theoretical framework of five dimensions of executive appointment and dismissal that can be applied in both more democratic and more authoritarian regimes: the hereditary, military, ruling party, direct election, and confidence dimensions.
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Electoral Performance by Post-Rebel Parties
Carrie Manning,Ian O. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the factors affecting post-rebel party electoral performance and find that competition and pre-war organizational experience have a significant positive effect, particularly for those parties that are consistently winning more than about 10 per cent of seats.
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cleavages, issues and parties: a critical overview of the literature
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What is left for the radical left? A comparative examination of the policies of radical left parties in western Europe before and after 1989
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comparative mapping of the policies and policy positions of western European radical left parties before and after the fall of communism, and show that although leftward trends can be observed in many radical left families in the early 2010s, the general, long-time trend shows that the radical left family has become less radical with regards to the core left-right dimension.