Government Formation and Party System Stabilization in East Central Europe  

Oleh:

Toole, James

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Party Politics vol. 6 no. 4 (Oct. 2000), page 441–461.
Topik: democratic transition  East Central Europe  electoral volatility  government formation  party system stabilization
Fulltext: 441PP64.pdf (67.11KB)

Isi artikel

The stabilization of party systems in new democracies is commonly assumed to be a lengthy process. Applying Peter Mair’s governmentformation- based model of party system development to the three young East Central European democracies of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the article shows that party systems can stabilize much more quickly than expected. In an analysis of emerging party system patterns, the Hungarian and Czech party systems are found to be far more stable than the Polish, and already nearly as stable as more mature party systems. Examining differences in the three cases, the article makes two primary conclusions about the process of stabilization in new party systems. First, it suggests that stabilization is the product of both electoral system design and consequent patterns of elite behavior. Second, it argues that stabilization not only occurs in spite of on-going volatility in party–voter alignments, but actually serves to reduce it.

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