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The lack of political party development in some postcommunist states but not in others is an important feature of their political development. Variability in party development explains the variability of successful democratization in these states. These outcomes have been influenced by the presence or absence of parties as institutional constraints upon rational political elites’ pursuit of their self-interest rather than the public interest. Parties develop where there are incentives for elites to create them, otherwise elites will not invest in collective action; the electoral system used provides this incentive. PR formulae provide incentives for party creation, whereas SMD formulae offer none. This paper empirically tests these theorized relationships between electoral systems, political parties, and democratization. |
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Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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| Riggs, Jonathan. "The Party’s Not Over Yet: Elections, Political Parties, and Democratization in the Postcommunist States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 02, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362543_index.html> |
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| Riggs, J. W. , 2009-04-02 "The Party’s Not Over Yet: Elections, Political Parties, and Democratization in the Postcommunist States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2009-11-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362543_index.html |
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Abstract: The lack of political party development in some postcommunist states but not in others is an important feature of their political development. Variability in party development explains the variability of successful democratization in these states. These outcomes have been influenced by the presence or absence of parties as institutional constraints upon rational political elites’ pursuit of their self-interest rather than the public interest. Parties develop where there are incentives for elites to create them, otherwise elites will not invest in collective action; the electoral system used provides this incentive. PR formulae provide incentives for party creation, whereas SMD formulae offer none. This paper empirically tests these theorized relationships between electoral systems, political parties, and democratization. |
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| THE PARTY’S NOT OVER YET: ELECTORAL SYSTEMS POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN POSTCOMMUNIST STATES JONATHAN W. RIGGS INTRODUCTION The direction of this research was sparked by the observation that among the twenty-eight postcommunist states of Europe and Asia those with proportional electoral systems have been generally much more successful in building democracy than those with majoritarian electoral systems with those having mixed electoral systems falling somewhere in between.1 It is my thesis that the answer to this puzzle is |
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