Elections, electoral systems and volatile voters / Gianfranco Baldini and Adriano Pappalardo.

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Elections and parties are obvious cornerstones of democratic regimes. Though intensively researched and lively debated through the post-war literature, these topics deserve continuous attention to keep up with an accelerating rate of change of both collective actors, legal rules, and their socio-political environment. The book gives a full account of past experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies. A special focus is devoted to volatility, i.e., the growing instability of voting choices. This - is argued - is the indicator of a wholesale crisis of the electors-parties trust relationship and the underlying cause of an unprecedented party fragmentation and a decreasing effectiveness of electoral rules. The analysis, descriptive, interpretative, and explanatory, is based on an original 1945-2007 comparative data set including all relevant political and institutional variables.

Palgrave political & international studies collection 2009.

Print version: Baldini, Gianfranco. Elections, electoral systems and volatile voters. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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April 19, 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-217) and index.

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