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In Defiance of Duverger: The Class Cleavage and the Emergence of District-Level Multiparty Systems in Western Europe |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/27841 |
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2014-11-18 |
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Raymond, Christopher D., 2014, "In Defiance of Duverger: The Class Cleavage and the Emergence of District-Level Multiparty Systems in Western Europe", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27841, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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In Defiance of Duverger: The Class Cleavage and the Emergence of District-Level Multiparty Systems in Western Europe |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/27841 |
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Raymond, Christopher D. (Queen's University Belfast) |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Harvard Dataverse Network |
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Christopher D. Raymond |
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2014-11-18 |
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2014-11-18 |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27841 |
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Party systems, social cleavages, Duverger's Law |
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At its core, Duverger's Law - holding that the number of viable parties in first-past-the-post systems should not exceed two - applies primarily at the district level. While the number of parties nationally may exceed two, district-level party system fragmentation should not. Given that a growing body of research shows that district-level party system fragmentation can indeed exceed two in first-past-the-post systems, I explore whether the major alternative explanation for party system fragmentation - the social cleavage approach - can explain such violations of Duverger's Law. Testing this argument in several West European elections prior to the adoption of proportional representation, I find evidence favouring a social cleavage explanation: with the expansion of the class cleavage, the average district-level party system eventually came to violate the two-party predictions associated with Duverger's Law. This suggests that sufficient social cleavage diversity may produce multiparty systems in other first-past-the-post systems. |
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Raymond, Christopher D. 2014. In Defiance of Duverger: The Class Cleavage and the Emergence of District-Level Multiparty Systems in Western Europe. Research and Politics. |
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Raymond, Christopher D. 2014. In Defiance of Duverger: The Class Cleavage and the Emergence of District-Level Multiparty Systems in Western Europe. Research and Politics. |
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