Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America (review)

Lipset, Seymour Martin

doi:10.1353/jod.1996.0002

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“…1 Some works, such as Alvarez et al (1996), go so far as to incorporate partisan competition into their very definition of democracy. But even scholars who consider the two concepts logically separable believe that, empirically, "partisan competition is a necessary precondition for democracy" (Aldrich and Griffin 2010, 595;see also American Political Science Association 1950;Lipset 1996;Katz 2006;Aldrich 2011).…”

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Representation without Parties: Reconsidering the One-Party South, 1930062

Caughey

2014

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Representation without Parties: Reconsidering the One-Party South, 1930062

Caughey

2014

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Democracy and infant mortality within India: from whether to why

Bellinger

2016

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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How does democratic politics affect infant mortality? The bulk of existing research has debated whether democracies have lower levels of infant mortality than non-democracies. Yet, infant mortality varies as much within countries as it does between countries, suggesting that the political processes affecting infant mortality operate at the subnational level. To shed new light on the debate, this paper examines how three core democratic attributes affect infant mortality within a single democracy: India. I argue that higher levels of political representation, citizens' participation, and electoral competition provide political incentives for elected representatives to reduce infant mortality. The theory is tested on a times-series data set from 15 major Indian states between 1980 and 2011. Overall, the results demonstrate the significance of democratic politics, particularly political representation, in influencing infant mortality.

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