Shadows From the Past

Party System Institutionalization in Asia

Bibliographic Data

ID6245643
AuthorsAllen Hicken (0000-0002-3995-953X, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA,), Erik Martinez Kuhonta (0000-0003-3400-0490, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Year2011
Volume44
Issue5
Pages572-597
Publication date2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Political Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4140 • E-ISSN: 1552-3829
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0010414010396460
OpenAlexW2131309288
LanguageEN
Citations received59
References cited52

This article explains variation in levels of party system institutionalization in Asia by testing available data against several major hypotheses in the literature. The authors make three contributions to the literature on party system institutionalization. First, this study finds that historical legacies are a crucial variable affecting current levels of party system institutionalization. In particular, the immediate postwar period was the crucible from which institutionalized party systems in Asia developed. Second, the authors claim that for a significant number of institutionalized party systems, historical legacies are rooted in some element of authoritarianism, either as former authoritarian parties or as semidemocratic regimes. Third, precisely because authoritarianism has played an important role in the origins of institutionalized party systems, the authors argue that the concept of institutionalization needs to be strictly separated from the concept of democracy

Authoritarianism · Crucible (geodemography · Democracy · Democratization · Institutionalisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Public Administration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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