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| Title in English | Research into Electoral Competition and Party Arrangements in Multi-Level Settings: A Comment on Choosing a Conceptual Framework |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Evropská volební studia |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://ispo.fss.muni.cz/uploads/EVS/009/EVS_5_1.pdf |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | party system; set of party arrangements; party competition; multi-level settings; elections |
| Description | The article deals with the choice of a conceptual framework for description and analysis of party configurations in multi-level institutional settings. It discusses some preconditions and consequences of application of two possible organizing concepts: the multi-level party system and/or the multi-level set of party arrangements. It argues that conceptualization of the multilayered party system has always been very complicated task. Moreover, in the case of markedly diversified inter-party competitions this concept appears to be of little use. The more suitable option seems to be to begin with a description of party configurations stemming from electoral contests at different institutional levels without any presumption that these configurations necessarily form (or belong to) a single over-arching party system. They could and should be conceived as parts of a multi-level set of party arrangements. This approach enables sophisticated assessments of systemic properties of varied groups of party configurations. |
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