- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Party Change
- 3 Indicators of Party Change
- 4 The Presence and Success of National-Level Parties in Local and Regional Elections
- 5 A Cross-National Comparison of Party Change
- 6 Political Personalization
- 7 Indicators of Political Personalization
- 8 Parties versus Politicians Online
- 9 A Cross-National Analysis of Political Personalization
- 10 Party Change and Political Personalization
- 11 Party Change and Political Personalization
- 12 Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Supplement to Table 3.1: Change in the Party Background of Ministers
- Appendix 2 Supplement to Table 3.2: Change in the Party Background of Legislators
- Appendix 3 Supplement to Table 3.3: Change in the Proportion of Party Members in the Electorate (M/E in %)
- Appendix 4 Supplement to Table 3.5: Change in Party Identification
- Appendix 5 Supplement to Table 3.6: Change in Net Electoral Volatility
- Appendix 6 Supplement to Table 3.7: Change in Electoral Turnout
- Appendix 7 Supplement to Table 3.8: Change in the Effective Number of Parties among Voters (ENPV)
- Appendix 8 Supplement to Table 3.9: Change in Party System Innovation
- Appendix 9 Supplement to Table 4.1: Local Parties’ Shares of Votes and Seats
- Appendix 10 Supplement to Table 4.4: Dissimilarity Index: Vote in the Region for National Elections vs. Vote in the Region for Regional Elections: Averages by Decade
- Appendix 11 Supplement for Table 5.6: Partyness at Starting Point and Change in Partyness for the Selected Indicators
- Appendix 12 Supplement for Table 5.8: Partyness at End Point
- Appendix 13 Supplement for Table 7.3: Prime Minister’s Influence and Presidentialization
- Appendix 14 Supplement for Table 7.5: Party Abbreviations
- Appendix 15 Supplement for Table 7.9: Changes in the Submission of Private Member Bills
- Appendix 16 Supplement for Table 7.10: Change in the Number of Coalition Members per Minister
- Appendix 17 Supplementary Material for Chapter 8: The Research Population
- Appendix 18 Supplement for Chapter 9: New Media Indicators
- Appendix 19 Supplement to Chapter 9: Pearson Correlations between the Indicators of Personalization
- Appendix 20 Summary of the Indicators of Personalization
- Appendix 21 Supplement to Chapter 11: Pearson Correlations between the Indicators of Partyness and the Indicators of Personalization
- References
- Author Index
- Index
Party Change
Party Change
The Variance Hiding behind the General Trend
- Chapter:
- (p.15) 2 Party Change
- Source:
- From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?
- Author(s):
Gideon Rahat
Ofer Kenig
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The chapter sets the theoretical and conceptual basis for the analysis of party change from a cross-national comparative perspective. It starts with the central arguments in the literature on party change: the broad agreement that change occurs, followed by the debate that revolves around its depth and meaning. Are parties declining or adapting? Next, it explains the tendency in the literature to overlook cross-national variance. Finally, it outlines the approach adopted in this book: its emphasis on cross-national variance rather than on a generalized trend; the dozen indicators that are used to map the various aspects of party change; and the methodological barriers to conducting research on longitudinal cross-national variance and how we will overcome them. Finally, it presents indicators that were not included in the analysis, explains why they were left out, and assesses the “cost” of their exclusion.
Keywords: cross-national comparison, indicators for party change, methodological barriers, party change, party decline, party adaptation
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Party Change
- 3 Indicators of Party Change
- 4 The Presence and Success of National-Level Parties in Local and Regional Elections
- 5 A Cross-National Comparison of Party Change
- 6 Political Personalization
- 7 Indicators of Political Personalization
- 8 Parties versus Politicians Online
- 9 A Cross-National Analysis of Political Personalization
- 10 Party Change and Political Personalization
- 11 Party Change and Political Personalization
- 12 Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Supplement to Table 3.1: Change in the Party Background of Ministers
- Appendix 2 Supplement to Table 3.2: Change in the Party Background of Legislators
- Appendix 3 Supplement to Table 3.3: Change in the Proportion of Party Members in the Electorate (M/E in %)
- Appendix 4 Supplement to Table 3.5: Change in Party Identification
- Appendix 5 Supplement to Table 3.6: Change in Net Electoral Volatility
- Appendix 6 Supplement to Table 3.7: Change in Electoral Turnout
- Appendix 7 Supplement to Table 3.8: Change in the Effective Number of Parties among Voters (ENPV)
- Appendix 8 Supplement to Table 3.9: Change in Party System Innovation
- Appendix 9 Supplement to Table 4.1: Local Parties’ Shares of Votes and Seats
- Appendix 10 Supplement to Table 4.4: Dissimilarity Index: Vote in the Region for National Elections vs. Vote in the Region for Regional Elections: Averages by Decade
- Appendix 11 Supplement for Table 5.6: Partyness at Starting Point and Change in Partyness for the Selected Indicators
- Appendix 12 Supplement for Table 5.8: Partyness at End Point
- Appendix 13 Supplement for Table 7.3: Prime Minister’s Influence and Presidentialization
- Appendix 14 Supplement for Table 7.5: Party Abbreviations
- Appendix 15 Supplement for Table 7.9: Changes in the Submission of Private Member Bills
- Appendix 16 Supplement for Table 7.10: Change in the Number of Coalition Members per Minister
- Appendix 17 Supplementary Material for Chapter 8: The Research Population
- Appendix 18 Supplement for Chapter 9: New Media Indicators
- Appendix 19 Supplement to Chapter 9: Pearson Correlations between the Indicators of Personalization
- Appendix 20 Summary of the Indicators of Personalization
- Appendix 21 Supplement to Chapter 11: Pearson Correlations between the Indicators of Partyness and the Indicators of Personalization
- References
- Author Index
- Index
