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Jonathan Polk

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Stepping in the Same River Twice : Stability Amidst Change in Eastern European Party Competition

Författare

  • Jan Rovny
  • Jonathan Polk

Summary, in English

Party competition in Eastern Europe faces a seeming paradox. On the one hand, research finds increased political volatility in these countries, while, on the other, some authors demonstrate inherent ideological stability in the region. This research note presents a new methodological approach to adjudicating between these two findings, and suggests that while political organisations come and go, the ideological structure of party competition in Eastern Europe is strikingly steady. By developing a number of different measures of the dimensional structure of party competition, the consistency of the measures across countries, as well as their relative stability within countries over time, is demonstrated. The findings speak to current developments in Eastern Europe, and have implications beyond the region. The conclusion that even volatile party systems can be underpinned by stable ideological oppositions points to two different types of party system structure: one related to parties as organisations, and the other related to parties as expressions of political divides.

Publiceringsår

2017

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

188-198

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Journal of Political Research

Volym

56

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley

Ämne

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0304-4130