Political Parties and Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Stoke (0000-0001-9389-2826, University of Chicago, corresponding author), S C Stokes (University of Chicago) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 243-267 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.243 |
| OpenAlex | W2123193427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 106 |
| References cited | 96 |
A central claim of democratic theory is that democracy induces governments to be responsive to the preferences of the people. Political parties organize politics in every modern democracy, and some observers claim that parties are what induce democracies to be responsive. Yet, according to others, parties give voice to extremists and reduce the responsiveness of governments to the citizenry. The debate about parties and democracy takes on renewed importance as new democracies around the globe struggle with issues of representation and governability. I show that our view of the impact of parties on democratic responsiveness hinges on what parties are—their objectives and organization. I review competing theories of parties, sketch their testable implications, and note the empirical findings that may help adjudicate among these theories. I also review debates about the origins of parties, about the determinants of party-system size and characteristics, and about party competition
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Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice
The Idea of a Party System
The Responsible Electorate
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Ideology, Strategy and Party Change
Mandates and Democracy
Candidates with policy preferences
Strategy-proofness and Arrow's conditions
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Equilibrium in spatial voting
Intransitivities in multidimensional voting models and some implications for agenda control
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The Reasoning Voter
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The pure theory of large two-candidate elections
Expectations about voter choices
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A Methodological Critique of Duverger's Political Parties
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The Logics of Electoral Politics
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Opening the Window for Reform
The Decline of Parties in the Minds of Citizens
Controlling the Floor
Robustness of the Multidimensional Voting Model
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A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties
Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties
Does Incrementalism Stem from Political Consensus or from Institutional Gridlock
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Constituency Influence in Congress
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Advocacy Politics in Presidential Parties
Spatial Models of Party Competition
Candidate Motivation
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A Directional Theory of Issue Voting
| Unique citing works | 106 |
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| Citations per year | 4,08 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 104 |