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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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Bilateralism or the median mandate? An examination of rival perspectives on democratic governance
TL;DR: This article examined the validity of the median mandate hypothesis when median positions are measured more directly from public opinion surveys (particularly, the Eurobarometer and Comparative Study of Electoral Systems series) and found that choice between distinct alternatives, rather than conformity to the median, more accurately characterises governance in democratic systems.
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Of Byrd[s] and Bumpers: Using Democratic Senators to Analyze Political Change in the South, 1960-1995
TL;DR: In this paper, a time series cross-sectional analysis of the effect of black mobilization and Republican strength on Southem Democratic Senators and states from 1960 to 1995 was carried out.
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Social services to claim legitimacy: comparing autocracies’ performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the social service performance of different post-Cold War authoritarian regimes and show that electoral autocracies outperform single-party and military regimes, although they show a capacity to provide for their citizens that is similar to hereditary regimes.
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State Crisis in Fragile Democracies: Polarization and Political Regimes in South America
TL;DR: This article examined how the occurrence of state crises and the inherited strength of left wing political actors combined to push countries onto distinct party system trajectories characterized by different kinds of left parties and movements, highly variant levels of polarization, and ultimately divergent political regime dynamics.
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Authoritarian Inheritance and Conservative Party-Building in Latin America
TL;DR: A theory of "authoritarian inheritance" was proposed in this paper, which argues that close links to former dictatorships may, under some circumstances, be the key to party-building success.