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Do European Parliament elections impact national party system fragmentation?
- Abstract:
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Why have European large parties lost electoral ground in recent decades? Whereas most explanations draw on theories of dealignment, this paper advances a novel, institutional, argument by focusing on the introduction of direct elections to the European Parliament (EP) in 1979. Archetypes of second-order elections, EP elections are characterized by lower vote shares for 1) large and 2) incumbent parties. Bridging the second-order elections theory with theories of political socialization, we po...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Comparative Political Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 447-476
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1552-3829
- ISSN:
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0010-4140
- Source identifiers:
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697556
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- pubs:697556
- Deposit date:
- 2017-05-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Dinas and Riera
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 The Authors. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017710259
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