Emanuele, Vincenzo;
Sikk, A;
(2018)
Party (system) crashers? Understanding the trajectories of genuinely new parties in Western Europe after 1945.
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(Proceedings) ECPR General Conference 2018.
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): Hamburg, Germany.
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Abstract
Western European party systems have recently experienced increasing electoral instability and the emergence of successful new parties, leading in some contexts to party system de-institutionalization. Notwithstanding the growing relevance of these trends, poor attention has been dedicated to the rise of new parties from a comparative and long-term perspective, while case studies focusing on a single party or country are overwhelming. In this paper, we rely on the notion of ‘genuinely new parties’ that ‘are not successors to any previous parliamentary parties, have a novel name and structure, and do not have any important figures from past democratic politics among their major members’ (Sikk 2005, 399). This concept was originally designed for Central and Eastern European party systems with the purpose of highlighting a difference with the insiders of the system (i.e., the founder parties, or their successors). For the first time, we apply this perspective to Western European party systems. By building a dataset covering 20 countries and more than 350 parliamentary elections, we have identified 127 genuinely new parties emerged in Western Europe after 1945. We have tracked the performance of those parties in terms of electoral success, parliamentary representation and government participation across time, countries, and party families. Through a latent trajectory model (Nagin 2005; Mustillo 2009) the paper provides a classification of such genuinely new parties in terms of their varying ability to enter the system and persist over time, thus becoming part of it.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Party (system) crashers? Understanding the trajectories of genuinely new parties in Western Europe after 1945 |
| Event: | ECPR General Conference 2018 |
| Location: | Hamburg |
| Dates: | 22 Aug 2018 - 25 Aug 2018 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/39329 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Genuinely new parties, elections, party system change, latent trajectory model, Western Europe |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179760 |
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