Registration, Turnout, and State Party Systems

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
Robert D. Brown ◽  
Robert A. Jackson ◽  
Gerald C. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Party Systems ◽  
State Party

Registration, Turnout, and State Party Systems

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Brown ◽  
Robert A. Jackson ◽  
Gerald C. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Party Systems ◽  
State Party

scholarly journals Rethinking Party System Nationalization in India (1952–2014)

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjan H. Schakel ◽  
Wilfried Swenden
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
State Party ◽  
Election Result ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Election Results ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Electoral Performance

This article provides a new conceptual and empirical analysis of party system nationalization, based on four different measurements. Unlike previous nationalization studies, these measurements conceptualize party system nationalization on the basis of electoral performance in national (general or federal) and sub-national (state) elections. After introducing these measurements we apply them to 16 general and 351 state elections in India, the world’s largest democracy with strong sub-national governments. By incorporating state election results we are able to demonstrate that: (1) the pattern of denationalization in India has been more gradual than assumed in previous studies of party system nationalization; (2) denationalization in recent decades results less from dual voting (vote shifting between state and federal elections) than from the growing divergence among state party systems (in state and federal elections); (3) the 2014 general election result, although potentially transformative in the long run, provides more evidence of continuity than change in the short run.

scholarly journals From convergence to congruence: European integration and citizen–elite congruence

2021 ◽  
pp. 146511652110249
Author(s):  
Daniel Devine ◽  
Raimondas Ibenskas
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Party System ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
State Party ◽  
The Public ◽  
Party Positions ◽  
Expert Surveys

Recent research argues that European integration has led to an ideological convergence of member state party systems, which is purported to have significant consequences for democratic representation. We argue that convergence of party positions is less problematic if congruence between governed and governing is maintained. We therefore turn to test whether integration has had an effect on congruence between the public and their governing elites. Using five measures of integration, two sources of public opinion data, and expert surveys on political parties, we find little evidence that integration into the European Union reduces congruence between the public and the national party system, government or legislature either ideologically or across five issue areas. These results should assuage concerns about integration’s effect on domestic political representation.

Classification of American State Party Systems

1964 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard I. Hofferbert
Keyword(s):  
Party Systems ◽  
State Party ◽  
American State

Party Cleavages and Welfare Effort in the American States

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Brown
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The State ◽  
State Party ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Party Control ◽  
State Welfare ◽  
The Impact

Attempts to determine the impact of party control on state welfare policy have produced mixed and inconclusive results, in part due to our inability to account for variations in the state partisan environments. I used CBS/New York Times surveys combined over the period 1976–88 to offer a detailed examination of the state party systems, resulting in a description of the dominant social group partisan cleavage in each state. This information is then used to examine the impact of party control on state welfare benefits. The findings show that the coalitional bases of the parties vary in important ways, both within and across the states. These differences in the state party systems have an important influence on the relationship between party control and state welfare effort. Specifically, party control has a significantly greater impact in states where partisan divisions reflect class-based New Deal-type coalitions. When examined in the context of state partisan environments, party control has a much greater impact on state welfare effort than has been suggested by previous studies.

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