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the laws and practices that excluded blacks and poor whites from politics). The Jim Crow South was, however, also set within a f ...
partisanship that underlies those vote choices are based on assessments of outcomes, looking at past performance by partisan oYc ...
Parties are objects about which beliefs and loyalties, preferences and assessments, are formed and used. They help lead the vote ...
objects of actual choices, not just the basis for making assessments. Thus, the continuity of parties combined with a lack of ri ...
party-as-choice should be more commonplace. Other convergences may be exploitable to examine whether party-as-assessment is, in ...
members gives their party. The post-Second World War era was particularly low, and the contemporary period (as in the nineteenth ...
Circumstances dictate the kinds of power the majority will wield. When there were fewer collective interests to serve, the party ...
minded oYceholders would overshoot in this ‘‘macro polity.’’ Two likely possibilities are that the politicians are personally mo ...
voter, and he and Laver applied this notion successfully in a number of empirical cases. Laver and Shepsle took a model that She ...
The second line of research inside the ‘‘black box’’ of the parliamentary party is to examine behavior in addition to roll call ...
the relationship between the party system and the set of parties that make up that system. One theme has been the importance of ...
party. And it is through the theoretical uniWcation of the party in and out of the legislature (perhaps accomplished through the ...
Butler, D. and Stokes,D. 1974 [ 1969 ].Political Change in Britain: The Evolution of Electoral Choice, 2 nd edn. New York: St. M ...
Haggard, S. and McCubbins, M. D. (eds.) 2000 .Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hays,S ...
Lupia, A. M. and Strom,K. 1995. Coalition termination and the strategic timing of parliamentary elections.American Political Sci ...
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Duverger’s Law remains the canonical statement of the political consequence of electoral systems, and one that informs the topic ...
all actors involved. In the ‘‘real world,’’ politicalWghts and disagreements ensue and, in the academic world, analysis of elect ...
electoral systems in general. The major insight remains that electoral systems are not merely neutral systems for totting up vot ...
Other implications of the consequences of Duverger focus on the issues associ- ated with proportionality and representation. To ...
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