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Record Nr.

UNINA9910564695003321

Autore

Chiaramonte Alessandro

Titolo

The deinstitutionalization of Western European party systems / / Alessandro Chiaramonte and Vincenzo Emanuele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-030-97978-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

324.24

Soggetti

Political parties - Europe, Western

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Theoretical Background -- 2.1 Party System Institutionalization: A Critical Review of the Literature -- 2.2 Toward a New Conceptualization (I): Addressing the Multidimensionality of Party System Institutionalization -- 2.3 Toward a New Conceptualization (II): Integrating Electoral, Parliamentary, and Governmental Arenas -- References -- 3 Party System Instability and Unpredictability Between Votes and Seats -- 3.1 Disentangling Volatility: Alteration and Regeneration -- 3.2 Volatility in Western Europe: Empirical Evidence -- 3.3 Volatility in Western Europe: National Variations -- 3.4 Volatility in Western Europe: Evolution Over Time -- 3.5 Patterns of Instability and Unpredictability in Western Europe -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 4 The Rise of New Parties and the Reshaping of Party Systems -- 4.1 'New Party' and 'Party System Innovation': From Theory to Measurement -- 4.2 Electoral and Parliamentary Innovation in Western Europe -- 4.3 The Exceptional Rise of Innovation in the 2010s -- 4.4 Innovation in a Cumulative Perspective: Founder and Non-founder Parties of the Democratic Regime -- 4.5 The Effects of Innovation on Party Systems After 75 Years of Democracy -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 5 Interparty Competition in the Governmental Arena -- 5.1 The First Sign of Government Stability: Cabinet Duration -- 5.2



The Three Faces of Interparty Competition in the Governmental Arena -- 5.2.1 Temporal and National Patterns -- 5.3 A Tale of Interparty Competition in the Governmental Arena -- 5.4 On the Eve of a Wave of Party System Deinstitutionalization in the Governmental Arena? -- Appendix -- References.

6 Party System Institutionalization: Measurement and Evidence -- 6.1 A New Index to Measure Party System Institutionalization -- 6.2 Validation -- 6.3 Empirical Evidence -- 6.4 A Consistent and Sustained Process of Party System Deinstitutionalization -- Appendix -- References -- 7 Explaining Party System Deinstitutionalization -- 7.1 The Drivers of Party System (De)Institutionalization: Hypotheses -- 7.2 Data and Method -- 7.3 Results and Discussion -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Further Robustness Checks -- References -- 8 The Consequences of Party System Deinstitutionalization on Democracy -- 8.1 The Effect of PSI on 'Subjective' and 'Objective' Democracy: Hypotheses -- 8.2 Controls, Data, and Method -- 8.3 Results and Discussion -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Further Robustness Checks -- References -- 9 Conclusion: Western European Party Systems in the Midst of the Storm -- References -- Index.