TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Approach to Estimating Electoral Instability in Parties
AU - Marinova, Dani M.
N1 - The author acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Political Science to Marinova, SES 1065761)
PY - 2014/12/22
Y1 - 2014/12/22
N2 - Recent scholarship has identified problems in the measurement of party system instability. To limit the conflation of different sources of instability in party systems (e.g., electoral shifts between stable parties and instability in parties, such as mergers, splinters or new parties), this article introduces a new indicator of electoral instability in parties, tests its robustness and construct validity and demonstrates its usefulness empirically. The indicators of party instability and the accompanying data of 27 European democracies, 1987–2011, will be valuable resources in comparative research on the interplay between elite and mass behavior, party and electoral systems, and democratic consolidation.
AB - Recent scholarship has identified problems in the measurement of party system instability. To limit the conflation of different sources of instability in party systems (e.g., electoral shifts between stable parties and instability in parties, such as mergers, splinters or new parties), this article introduces a new indicator of electoral instability in parties, tests its robustness and construct validity and demonstrates its usefulness empirically. The indicators of party instability and the accompanying data of 27 European democracies, 1987–2011, will be valuable resources in comparative research on the interplay between elite and mass behavior, party and electoral systems, and democratic consolidation.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2014.35
DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2014.35
M3 - Article
SN - 2049-8470
VL - 3
SP - 265
EP - 280
JO - Political Science Research and Methods
JF - Political Science Research and Methods
IS - 2
ER -