Book of Donmon Teith

Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization. Based on raw electoral dat

DIVWhy new political parties are formed, and why some thrive while others fade away /div

This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party sys

The empirical starting point for anyone who wants to understand political cleavages in the democratic world, based on a unique dataset covering fifty countries

Examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the 1990s. The work illustrates developments regarding different voter appeal of partie