Partisanship and the party system
@article{Converse1992PartisanshipAT, title={Partisanship and the party system}, author={Philip E. Converse and Roy Gifford Pierce}, journal={Political Behavior}, year={1992}, volume={14}, pages={239-259} }
The defining properties of party identification long established for the United States fail with some frequency to be replicated in electoral systems abroad. A number of plausible suggestions have been made to account for this system-level variability: Most of these have some face merit, but none taken alone is adequate to provide a full cross-system explanation. Variation in party system size or fractionalization has recently been discussed as another source of differential dynamics of party…
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