‘Out with the old, in with the ‘‘new’’’: What constitutes a new party?
‘Out with the old, in with the ‘‘new’’’: What constitutes a new party?
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“革故鼎新”：什么是新政党？
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2011
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Gideon Rahat
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Shlomit Barnea;Gideon Rahat
“新政党的构成是什么？”这个问题的答案对于分析党组织、党际政治（政党制度）和整个政治制度的稳定性、连续性和变化至关重要。然而，政治学文献并没有给出这个问题的标准答案。不同概念化的使用限制了政治学家相互沟通的能力，缺乏对新政党概念化和运作化变化的认识可能导致对数据的解释出现错误。这项研究提出了两种分析政党“新颖性”的工具。第一个涉及一个多维框架，使一个政党的相对“新颖性”得以估计；第二种是一个定义，它提出了一个阈值，以（二分法）确定一个政党是否应被视为新政党。我们使用以色列前进党的边缘案例来证明这些工具在政党层面的有用性及其在政党系统层面的重要性。
‘What constitutes a new political party?’ The answer to this question is central to the analysis of stability, continuity and change of party organizations, inter-party politics (party systems) and the political system as a whole. Yet, political science literature does not offer a standard answer to this question. The use of different conceptualizations limits the ability of political scientists to communicate with each other, and a lack of awareness of the variations in the conceptualization and operationalization of new parties may lead to errors in the interpretation of data. This study proposes two tools by which to analyse a party’s ‘newness’. The first involves a multidimensional framework that enables the relative ‘newness’ of a party to be reckoned; the second is a definition that proposes a threshold to determine (dichotomously) whether a party should be considered as new or not. We use the borderline case of the Israeli party Kadima to demonstrate the usefulness of these tools at the level of the party and its significance at the party system level.