2010

"Party Systems Effects on Country Governance, II" Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the America Political Science Association, Washington, DC. (with Jin-young Kwak and Julieta Suarez-Cao)

Describes research recently completed for a forthcoming book, Party Systems and Country Governance. The paper's presentation parallels chapters in the forthcoming book. It provides thumbnail sketches of the first five chapters and summaries of later ones. It is also the sequel to a paper delivered at the 2010 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. This paper summarizes research methodology reported at greater length in the Midwest paper and uses two additional variables. Its extended findings show that party system traits have significant and relatively consistent effects on country governance in 212 countries, as measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators.

 

"Party System Effects on Country Governance, I" Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. (with Jin-young Kwak and Julieta Suarez-Cao)

Reviewed various measures of party system properties and identified party system fragmentation, competitiveness, and volatility as central to scholarly attention and party theory. Assembling a unique set of data on seats held by parliamentary parties over two elections in 189 countries, we created measures for each of the three dimensions. We then tested three standard theories of the effects of party systems on country governance, using primarily data on the Rule of Law in 211 countries assembled in a World Bank project for 2007.

2009

"Competition and Volatility in Parliamentary Party Systems for 212 Polities," Paper presehted at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. (with Jinyoung Kwak)

We demonstrate the effects of country size, wealth, and politics on the World Bank's Indicators (WGI) representing the quality of governance in 212 polities in 2007. These indicators, created by Kaufmann, Kraay, and Mastruzzi (KKM), covered all 192 members of the United Nations.

1980

"A Note on Measures of Party System Change," Comparative Political Studies, 12 (January, 1980), 412-423.

In this symposium Mogens Pedersen argues against measuring party system change by comparing stalic measures of "fractionalization," and proposes a measure based on (,.-IHInges in party strength from time I to time 2, Shankar Bose proposes a related measure of party system change that combines changes in strength with changes in party continuity over time. This article compares their measures as applied to data from tcn party systems.

1994

"Restructuring the Party Systems in Central Europe," paper delivered at an International Symposium, Democratization and Political Reform in Korea, sponsored by the Korean Political Science Association, Seoul, Korea, November 19, 1994.

(1) To what extent are individual parties in central and eastern Europe becoming institutionalized? (2) How stable (or how volatile) are the voting patterns for parties across elections? (3) How does the experience of these "postauthoritarian" elections compare with the first elections in Western Europe following the end of World War II? This paper will offer some answers to these questions with specific reference to the political experience of four central European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.

1971

"Diversities Among Political Parties in Industrialized Societies," paper delivered at the Symposium on Comparative Analysis of Highly Industrialized Societies, sponsored by the International Social Science Council and held in Bellagio, Italy, August 1-17, 1971.

This paper contributes to the Symposium on Comparative Analysis of Highly Industrialized Societies by examining the means and variances of party properties (represented by the same seven concepts) when political parties are grouped into three levels of industrialization attained by their parent nations. This examination will allow for testing some rudimentary propositions concerning party properties and levels of industrialization across nations, and it will foreshadow some possible problems in building and testing any social theory that involves party variables and pertains specifically to highly industrialized societies.

2019

Piero Ignazi,

Party and Democracy: The Uneven Road to Party Legitimacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) in Party Politics (2019)

2003

Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther (eds.),

Political Parties and Democracy (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) in Party Politics, 9 (March, 2003), 257-259.

1998

Moshe Maor,

Political Parties and Party Systems: Comparative Approaches and the British Experience, (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). In Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration, 2 (April, 1998), 246-247.

1992

Tatu Vanhanen.

The Process of Democratization: A Comparative Study of 147 States, 1980-1988 (New York: Crane Russak, 1991). In Journal of Politics, 54 (August, 1992), 928-930.

1978

Lawrence C. Dodd.

Coalitions in Parliamentary Government. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976) in The American Political Science Review, 72 (June, 1978), 722-724.