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Publication Detail
Party novelty and congruence: A new approach to measuring party change and volatility
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Publication Type:Journal article
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Publication Sub Type:Article
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Authors:Sikk A, Koeker P
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Publisher:SAGE Publications
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Publication date:25/12/2017
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Journal:Party Politics
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Print ISSN:1354-0688
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Keywords:party change, volatility, new parties, splits and mergers, electoral coalitions
Abstract
We propose a new three-dimensional approach to party newness and an interval index of party congruence/novelty. Building on that, we also propose a split-vote-by-congruence (SBC) approach to electoral volatility that employs the index. Four elections from different countries that exhibited different forms of party change are used to illustrate the approach. The congruence/novelty index corresponds to our qualitative case knowledge and the SBC approach leads to meaningful volatility scores. Ad hoc coding of parties as new/old or singular successors/predecessors can seriously over- or underestimate volatility that explains divergence among volatility scores in literature. By eliminating the need for dichotomous and often controversial coding decisions, the SBC approach allows for a substantially more reliable calculation of volatility.
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