Article: Guatemala's Party Universe: A Case Study in Underinstitutionalization

Article: party system
Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      309 words ......systems. Two‐party systems feature major parties of roughly the...formation of smaller parties, resulting in two‐party systems. Britain and the...defined two‐party systems as those in which two major parties together gain...

Article: The patterns of party polarization in East Asia.
Journal of East Asian Studies;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......distribution of parties and the levels...polarization in the party systems of East Asian...democratic party systems in Europe argued that parties provided an...uncertain. These party systems are incredibly...the number of parties, and the types...

Article: The search for the centre: pivot parties in West European party systems.
West European Politics;  October 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......SYSTEMS AND PIVOT PARTIES Duverger once...West European party systems. Partly this is...many countries party systems showed a more...convergent trajectory, parties have remained...the 'centre' of party systems.(6) In sum, the...West European party systems ...

Article: Party aggregation and the number of parties in India and the United States.
American Political Science Review;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......associated with multiple party systems.(1) In accounting...number of national parties over time within...taken place in the party systems, one must look...in the number of parties over time in both...number of national parties in single-member...simple-plurality systems. ...

Article: Swiss Political Parties: Between Persistence and Change.(Switzerland)
West European Politics;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......stronger cantonal parties, [3] it has...distinctive party systems with different...and national party systems. The Number of Parties: A Decrease...its cantonal party systems in a comparative...more about the parties elected. Giovanni...

Article: Comparing Indonesia's party systems of the 1950s and the post-Suharto era: from centrifugal to centripetal inter-party competition.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the political parties had nominated...criticism of the parties for their corrupt...continue to enter parties to pursue political...literature on the party systems of both eras...described the parties of the 1950s...the respective party systems as well. This...tendencies ...

Article: Introduction: parties, party choice, and partisanship in East Asia.
Journal of East Asian Studies;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Asian political parties and party systems are quite diverse...most East Asian party systems do not exhibit...Many Asian parties appear more...established Western party systems, although comparable...major political parties in East Asia...

Article: The Europeanisation of Green parties: exploring the EU's impact.
West European Politics;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the belief that party systems remain relatively...Europeanisation of parties is neither direct...effect on national party systems made up of competing parties vying for votes...analysis tracks these parties over time, focusing...1991-2001. Green parties remain small ...

Article: Party system deinstitutionalization: The 1997-98 Colombian elections in historical perspective
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Latin American party systems, Mainwaring and...volatility.1 Second, parties are strongly rooted...studies. Finally, parties are well organized...institutionalized party systems, one rarely observes...institutionalized party systems. The polar opposite...volatility, with ...

Article: Indonesia seven years after Soeharto: party system institutionalization in a new democracy.
Contemporary Southeast Asia;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......country. The parties are an important...Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America...seen the role of parties as key to understanding...Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America...1998 article, Party Systems in the Third...book, Rethinking Party ...

Article: Remaking the Italian party system: how Lijphart got it wrong by saying it right. (Arendt Lijphart)
West European Politics;  October 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......stability of party systems: while individual parties have undergone...of faltering party systems: diminishing...crisis of the parties as unitary...strategies. Party systems often seem...because existing parties have the monopoly...

Article: Party-society linkages and democratic representation in Latin America
Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......failings of political parties? While intuitively...Latin American party systems, the notion of...different forms, and parties have performed...literature on political parties in Latin America...the contours of party systems, including the number of parties in any ...

Article: The Limited Impact of Europe on National Party Systems.
West European Politics;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......on the national party systems of the member...Europeanisation on the party systems of the member...the individual parties that constitute...fissures within parties, or to the extent...modifications to natio nal party systems that emerge only...Europe on national ...

Article: Electoral cycles, party organization and mobilization in Canada.
The Australian Journal of Politics and History;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......election cycle. Canadian parties with cadre-style organizations...expenditure activities of parties. Generally, such regimes...election spending by parties and candidates. However, in some jurisdictions parties are required to provide...electoral lives of the parties that make up the ...