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Multi-Party System with Limited Coalition Options
The task of parties is to represent the conflict lines existing in society, to steer politics through state formation of will and decision-making, to...
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Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?
Western societies are increasingly facing a challenge of affective polarization; a trend where citizens develop a strong affective connection toward...
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From Ambivalence to Vote Switching: Investigating the Underlying Mechanisms in Three European Multi-Party Systems
Since the past two decades, vote switching has been on the rise. An under-researched dimension of this phenomenon is the impact of ambivalent...
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The reflections on social media of the statement of the nation alliance’s strengthened parliamentary system in Turkey
The system of government has been a significant issue in Turkish politics intermittently since the transition to multi-party politics. Subsequently,...
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The predictive value of polls in a fragmented multi-party system: the Netherlands (1998–2021)
Although vote intention polls are often used in the public debate as forecasts of future election outcomes, their predictive value has been subjected...
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Risk attitudes and the propensity to vote for a new party in multi-party systems
The effect of risk attitudes on voting behavior is the subject of increasing attention in the literature. This paper investigates the effect of risk...
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Transformation of Party and Election System in Turkey
Turkish party system in the 1990s was fragmented. Unstable and short-lived coalition governments were the most common form of government. The...
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Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Ghana: The Struggles of Smaller Parties in an Institutionalised Two-Party System
This chapter examines why the smaller parties continuously record dismal outcomes in elections and why they are unable to survive in the political...
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Political clientelism and democracy in Turkey
Political clientelism refers to a socio-political structure and set of relations formed by the reciprocal and personal exchange acts that the patrons...
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Partisanship, Electoral Autocracy, and Citizen Perceptions of Party System Polarization
This paper examines how partisanship and electoral autocracy (vis-à-vis democracy) influence people’s perceptions of party system polarization in...
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Coordinated Co-governance and Grassroots Innovation: A Case Study of Shenzhen’s Livelihood-Related Project Voting System
Multi-stakeholder co-governance is essential for boosting governance performance and fostering grassroots governance innovation. In exploring...
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A Historical and Political Analysis of the Electoral System Development in Contemporary Russia: A Look into Russia’s Parliamentary Democracy
The electoral institution ensures the free expression of the will of the citizens in the choice of the ruler. The electoral institution is going...
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An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report
This article offers a critical evaluation of the National Food Strategy for England—informally known as the Dimbleby Report—published in July 2021....
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Changes in the Party System (1989–2022)
Based on the indicators presented in Chapter 5 , four changes to the party system in Slovenia are revealed: the...
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Barriers (and catalysts) of institutional change: The (almost) non-reform of the Portuguese electoral system (1983–2021)
The literature on electoral system change has focused on the motivations of the political actors who initiate these legislative processes. However,...
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Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study
In confronting the dominant scholarly narrative, which asserts that the Chinese populace predominantly views democracy through the prism of free...
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Studying politics at the local level in Germany: a tale of missing data
What are the strategies of political parties in multi-level government systems and how do voters respond to these strategies? At the national and...
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“The Unloved Child Matures”: Power-Sharing in Burundi
After a decade of civil war, Burundi adopted a complex power-sharing architecture codified in the 2000 Arusha Agreement and the 2005 Constitution....
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Blondel’s African Presidential Republics: proof presidentialism can perform even in the most challenging contexts?
The debate on the ‘perils of presidentialism’ has been raging for over 30 years and gone through at least three waves. It began with the influential...
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The System of Citizenship Distribution Before the Cultural Revolution
This chapter discusses the change process in public and private spheres, and the impact state-building has had on institutional space since the...