Party System Institutionalization, Party Collapse and Party Building

Mainwaring, Scott

doi:10.1017/gov.2016.21

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“…Even then, a ‘fundamental bias towards stability’ (Bartolini and Mair 1990: 68) still prevailed. Only more recently, following the de-freezing of political alignments, the weakening of ideological conflict after 1989 and the economic crisis of 2008, WE party systems have appeared to be changing to a significantly greater extent than before (Emanuele and Chiaramonte 2016; Hernández and Kriesi 2016), in some cases leading to an outcome of de-institutionalization (Chiaramonte and Emanuele 2017), under which the interactions between parties tend to become progressively irregular and unpredictable (Casal Bértoa 2014; Mainwaring 2016; Mainwaring and Scully 1995).…”

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Does the Iron Curtain Still Exist? The Convergence in Electoral Volatility between Eastern and Western Europe

2018

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The literature on party system change and electoral volatility in post-communist Europe tends to make a clear-cut distinction between Central and Eastern European (CEE) party systems and Western European (WE) ones. The former are unstable and unpredictable and electoral volatility is driven by the continuous emergence of new political parties. Conversely, electoral stability is the rule in the latter, and volatility is associated with electoral shifts among established parties. This conventional wisdom suffers from three potential sources of bias: case selection, time coverage and method. By correcting these biases, this article investigates whether the traditional division between CEE and WE party systems has been levelled as regards volatility. To do so, it presents evidence based on an original data set of electoral volatility and its internal components covering 31 WE and CEE party systems since 1990. It finds that a process of asymmetric convergence in the levels of electoral volatility is taking place between the two regions, with Western Europe approaching Central and Eastern Europe with increasing electoral instability.

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Does the Iron Curtain Still Exist? The Convergence in Electoral Volatility between Eastern and Western Europe

2018

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“…However, as my review (Mainwaring 2016) indicated, I did not find the evidence convincing that it explains differences in the profundity of party system upheaval during the transition from import substitution industrialization (ISI) to neoliberalism. Nor does his response in these pages (Roberts 2017) resolve my doubts.…”

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Coding Historical Qualitative Cases and Explaining Outcomes: A Rejoinder

Mainwaring¹

2017

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This rejoinder responds to Kenneth Roberts’s criticisms of my review published in these pages in August 2016. Roberts’s book, Changing Course, is a major contribution to scholarship on Latin American party systems, but Roberts and I disagree about three key issues. Firstly, because Roberts measured the economic effects of different kinds of party systems beginning in 1980, his coding of party systems must be immediately prior to that. Secondly, Roberts and I agree that many Latin American party systems exhibited deep change during the long era of important substitution industrialization (roughly 1940–80). In my judgement, the coding of party systems should reflect these changes more than Changing Course does. Thirdly, following principles for understanding causation, I argue that Changing Course does not conclusively show that labour-mobilizing party systems caused deeper economic crises and greater party system instability than elitist party systems.

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“…This question is crucial considering the institutionalization or institutionalization of political parties as to the primary component that determines the consolidation of democracy in addition to the institutionalization of elections. Mainwaring and Scully staged the institutionalization of political parties in four dimensions (Mainwaring & Scully, 1995;Mainwaring, 2016). First, the stability of competition between parties which refers to changes in the number of political parties participating in the election.…”

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Institutionalization of Political Parties on Post New Order Authoritarianism and Its Implications for Indonesian Democracy

Muliawan

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2020

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The article is focused on explaining how institutionalization of political parties in Indonesia after the collapse of New Order regimes and how it affects democratization in Indonesia. It is considered important since Soeharto’s regime rose to power, political parties are being forced to limit their ideal function/ In this article, the writers concludes that political parties in Indonesia after the authoritarianism regime, have not been institutionalized and are even far from it if compared to the magnitude level its current problem. Political parties are trapped on long term internal conflict of interest, drained their energy and still continued until now. Moreover, the depth oligarchies pattern in its management is worsened by personalized figure and the dominance of party’s management from the central, forced us into the conclusion that political party are just the sub-ordinates of elite’s interest. The result, political parties are simply failed to play important role in supporting consolidated democracy, since they are busy and distracted by their own internal problems. That’s why, when will Indonesia rise into transition phase in democracy is still questionable, especially if the question is solely based on institutionalization of political parties.

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Party System Institutionalization, Party Collapse and Party Building

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

Does the Iron Curtain Still Exist? The Convergence in Electoral Volatility between Eastern and Western Europe

Does the Iron Curtain Still Exist? The Convergence in Electoral Volatility between Eastern and Western Europe

Coding Historical Qualitative Cases and Explaining Outcomes: A Rejoinder

Institutionalization of Political Parties on Post New Order Authoritarianism and Its Implications for Indonesian Democracy

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