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Alonso, Sonia. "Enduring Ethnicity: the Political Survival of Incumbent Ethnic Parties in Western Democracies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-12-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40378_index.html>

Alonso, S. , 2005-09-01 "Enduring Ethnicity: the Political Survival of Incumbent Ethnic Parties in Western Democracies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2008-12-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40378_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In this paper I argue that ethnic and class-based parties are indistinguishable from one another in terms of voters� intrinsic loyalties. What distinguishes them is that voters use different criteria to judge them. Ethnic parties tend to be evaluated according to their defence of the ethno-nationalist programme of national independence and ethnic hegemony. Thus, they are relatively immune against electoral punishment stemming from government performance as conventionally defined in economic terms. Class-based parties, on the other hand, are quite prone to be judged sensitively by voters on economic matters. This difference in the way voters assess the two types of parties becomes a competitive advantage for ethnic parties when they are located in countries with a proportional electoral system. Such systems provide more incentives for political parties to appeal to encapsulated electorates than do majoritarian systems. I test this hypothesis by examining the regional governments of Canada, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Denmark, focusing on three main empirical indicators: electoral performance, vote fluctuation and survival in office.

European Integration and Ethnic Voting: Electoral Fortune of Ethnic Parties in Seven European Regions

Move to the Center or Mobilize the Base? Effects of Political Competition, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Loyalties on the Ideological Convergence of Vote-Maximizing Candidates in Two-Party Competition