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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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Intra-party delegation in the Portuguese legislature: assigning committee chairs and party coordination positions
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study is made of the Portuguese legislature, arguing that parties make use of their pivotal role in selecting legislators as committee chairs and party coordinators to keep tabs on legislators to thwart shirking from the party line.
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A different kind of social enterprise: social cooperatives and the development of civic capital in Italy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the relationship between parochialism and clientelism in Italian social cooperatives and two key challenges to community development, i.e., the lack of a social economy framework and the need to generate collective benefits for Italian civil society.
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James Madison: Republican or Democrat?
TL;DR: Dahl as discussed by the authors argued that the greatest threat in the American republic comes from a minority, not the majority, and that to protect their rights from minority factions, members of the majority faction must organize their own political party, and the danger that majorities might threaten property rights could be overcome by enabling a majority of citizens to own property, a feasible solution in America.
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The electoral performance of Latin American traditional parties, 1978–2006 Does the internal structure matter?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the internal organization of parties matters: it affects their ability to react and survive, especially in contexts of environmental change, and that variation in parties' internal characteristics explains different outcomes in their electoral performance.
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Living in A Non–Communist versus in A Post–Communist European Country Moderates the Relation between Conservative Values and Political Orientation: A Multilevel Study:
TL;DR: This article performed a multilevel, multinational analysis using the 2012 European Social Survey dataset (N = 41 080, nested in 20 countries) to study how living in a non-communist versus in a post-communis...