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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.

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The Rise of Golden Dawn: The New Face of the Far Right in Greece

TL;DR: The authors examines the rise of the one of the most extremist political parties in Europe, Golden Dawn, and examines the ideological, organisational and voter profile of the party, and offers possible explanations for its breakthrough in the 2012 elections, showing how the economic crisis brought a massive realignment of the Greek electorate away from mainstream parties, giving rise to anti-system and anti-immigrant sentiments.
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Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1994

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the political determinants of the distribution of infrastructure expenditures by the Italian government to the country's 92 provinces between 1953 and 1994 and finds that when districts elect politically more powerful deputies from the governing parties, they receive more investments.
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Partisan Families: The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain

TL;DR: A multivariate analysis of partisan support, preference, and constancy in Germany and Britain can be found in this article, where the social logic of partisanship and the social structure of partisan families are discussed.
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Minority Governments in Parliamentary Democracies: The Rationality of Nonwinning Cabinet Solutions

TL;DR: In this paper, a rationalist explanation for minority government formation in 15 parliamentary democracies since 1945 is presented, and the results suggest important modifications to theories of government and coalition formation, and suggest that even oppositional parties can influence parliamentary legislation and when government participation is likely to be a liability in future elections.
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Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that characteristics of the electoral and party systems do affect the level of support for the president in congress and hence the probability of minority presidents and minority governments.