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Party Institutionalization in New Democracies
Vicky Randall,Lars Svåsand +1 more
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The authors consider the relationship between party institutionalization and party system institutionalization, pointing out that they are not necessarily convergent and propose an analytic model to evaluate the convergence of the two models.Abstract:
The literature on democratisation emphasises the contribution of political parties, and in that context the importance of party institutionalization. But this concept remains relatively unexplored. Our article first considers the relationship between party institutionalization and party system institutionalization, pointing out that they are not necessarily convergent. We then review the existing literature on party institutionalization, indicating weaknesses and contradictions, before offering our own analytic model. In the final section we identify some of the key considerations arising when this model is applied to the particular circumstances of democratic transition in the Third World.read more
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Presidentialism and clientelism in Africa's emerging party systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the parties and party systems that have begun to emerge in sub-Saharan Africa's fledgling multiparty systems using a data base of 87 legislative elections convened in the 1990s.
Party System Institutionalization and Party System Theory: After the Third Wave of Democratization
Scott Mainwaring,Mariano Torcal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three differences between the party systems of the advanced industrial democracies and party systems in less developed countries, and show that most democracies and semi-democracies in less-developed countries have much higher electoral volatility than those of the industrial industrial democracies.
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Political Cleaners: Women as the New Anti‐Corruption Force?
TL;DR: A gendered analysis of corruption is in fact a useful entry-point to the examination of the gendered nature of accountability failures, and of gender-specific gaps in current attempts to promote good governance as mentioned in this paper.
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The Handbook of National Legislatures: A Global Survey
M. Steven Fish,Matthew Kroenig +1 more
TL;DR: This is a list of expert consultants who have contributed to the development of country studies and their views on how to improve the quality of these studies are summarized.
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Party systems and cleavage structures revisited : a sociological explanation of party system institutionalization in East Central Europe
TL;DR: Since Lipset and Rokkan (1967) published their seminal work on the importance of social cleavages for the freezing of party systems more than forty years ago, much has been written on the field of political analysis as mentioned in this paper.
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