Parties, elections and electoral contests competition and contamination effects
According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a pre-electoral coalition with another party or withdraw from competition entirely. Why then do non-viable political parties throughout the world systematic...
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Routledge
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Duvergerian gravity and the emergence of contamination effects
- 3. Contamination effects : the institutional and sociological incentives for compete
- 4. Contamination effects : the organisational incentives to compete
- 5. Qualitative empirical analysis : the organisational incentives to compete
- 6. Quantitative empirical analysis : the instutional and sociological determinants to compete
- 7. Conclusions.