Political Party Mortality in Established Party Systems
A Hierarchical Competing Risks Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6246793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Bolleyer (0000-0002-2393-3757, University of Exeter), Patricia Corrêa (0000-0003-2788-024X, University of Exeter), Gregory Katz (0000-0001-5970-2769, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-68 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4140 • E-ISSN: 1552-3829 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0010414018758764 |
| OpenAlex | W2779921498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 61 |
Existing scholarship offers few answers to fundamental questions about the mortality of political parties in established party systems. Linking party research to the organization literature, we conceptualize two types of party death, dissolution and merger, reflecting distinct theoretical rationales. They underpin a new framework on party organizational mortality theorizing three sets of factors: those shaping mortality generally and those shaping dissolution or merger death exclusively. We test this framework on a new data set covering the complete life cycles of 184 parties that entered 21 consolidated party systems over the last five decades, resorting to multilevel competing risks models to estimate the impact of party and country characteristics on the hazards of both types of death. Our findings not only show that dissolution and merger death are driven by distinct factors, but also that they represent separate logics not intrinsically related at either the party or systemic level
Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |