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The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Latin America
(2014-02-25)
Political parties are the basic building blocks of representative democracy. They reduce information costs for voters, enhance executive accountability, and contribute to democratic governability by facilitating legislative ...
Electoral Institutions, Party Strategies, Candidate Attributes, and the Incumbency Advantage
(2014-06-06)
In developed democracies, incumbents are consistently found to have an electoral advantage over their challengers. The normative implications of this phenomenon depend on its sources. Despite a large existing literature, ...
A Choice, Not an Echo: Polarization and the Transformation of the American Party System
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization and ideological realignment in the postwar United States. It treats the construction of an ideologically sorted party system as a ...
Why (So many) Parties? The Logic of Party Formation in Senegal
(2014-10-21)
Political parties proliferated in Senegal and other competitive authoritarian regimes in post-Cold War Africa. This dissertation examines the causes and consequences of that proliferation. Why do so many politicians create ...