Ethnic heterogeneity and party system size: A district-level analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina R Rashkova
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
System Size ◽  
District Level ◽  
Ethnic Heterogeneity ◽  
Level Analysis

The resilience of ethnic minority parties in the face of strategic voting incentives

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Allen
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Party System ◽  
System Size ◽  
Strategic Voting ◽  
District Level ◽  
Ethnic Parties ◽  
German Länder ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Heterogeneity ◽  
Restrictive Settings

Recent research has indicated that social heterogeneity impacts party system size, even in restrictive settings. This research as yet has not established whether it is minority or majority voters who are behaving outside Duvergerian expectations. This study argues that it is ethnic voters that seem to defect from their parties at lower rates, which explains why small parties proliferate and persist in heterogeneous states. This hypothesis is tested on party-in-district level election returns in the German lander Schleswig-Holstein. The results show that small ethnic parties suffer notably less defection than small non-ethnic parties. The study proposes a number of potential causal mechanisms that could be driving ethnic voters, as a group, to defect at lower rates than non-ethnic voters.

scholarly journals Association of child health and household amenities in high focus states in India: a district-level analysis

BMJ Open ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. e007589-e007589 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gouda ◽  
A. K. Gupta ◽  
A. K. Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
District Level ◽  
Level Analysis

Social Development in Punjab – Pakistan: A District Level Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahema Hasan ◽  
Ghulam Mohey-ud-din ◽  
Zain ul Abideen
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
District Level ◽  
Level Analysis

scholarly journals Political finance regimes and party system size: evidence from new and established European democracies

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Ekaterina R. Rashkova ◽  
Yen-Pin Su
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
System Size ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
District Magnitude ◽  
Political Finance ◽  
Campaign Expenditure ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Number Of Parties ◽  
Established Democracies

AbstractStudies of party system size have looked at institutional and sociological factors in their attempt to explain what determines the number of parties. While some recent studies contend that party laws, beyond the district magnitude, have a significant impact on, among others, new party entry, we know very little about whether certain rules matter more in some societies than they do in others. In this paper, we study the extent to which various party finance rules affect party system size and differentiate the effect between new and established democracies. Specifically, we focus on direct and indirect public subsidization and limits on private donation and campaign expenditure. We hypothesize that compared to established countries, new democracies tend to have a larger party system size when the political finance rules create more equal conditions for electoral competition. Using data from 43 Europe democracies, the empirical analyses support our hypothesis.

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