Understanding Cleavages in Party Systems
Understanding Cleavages in Party Systems
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了解政党体系中的分歧
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2009
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通讯作者：
S. Whitefield
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作者：
R. Rohrschneider;S. Whitefield
关于后共产主义时代中欧和东欧政党竞争背后的政治分裂特征，存在着相当大的争论，观点从无结构、到单一性、到结构多样性，再到完全独特的国家特定方法。作者认为，大部分分歧是由于没有认真对待问题立场和问题突出性之间的区别。考虑到这一点，作者提出了一个政党分裂模型，将各种论点综合为一个综合模型。这一论点的经验证据来自对13个后共产主义民主国家的87个政党的专家调查。从理论上讲，这项研究为后共产主义国家的政党分裂特征和民主反应提供了一幅比普遍接受的更为积极的图景。
There has been considerable debate about the characteristics of political cleavages underlying post-Communist Central and Eastern European party competition, with views ranging from no structure, to unidimensionality, to structured diversity, to entirely sui generis country-specific approaches. Much of the disagreement, the authors argue, results from the failure to take seriously the distinction between issue position and issue salience. Taking this into account, the authors present a model of party cleavages that synthesizes the various arguments into one comprehensive model. Empirical evidence for the argument is derived from an expert survey of 87 parties in 13 post-Communist democracies. Theoretically, this study provides a much more positive picture of the character of party cleavages and of democratic responsiveness in post-Communist states than is generally accepted.