Multiparty America?

Santucci, Jack

doi:10.1086/708937

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“…Americanists have recently discussed the potential benefits of adopting more proportional electoral rules (Drutman, 2020; Rodden, 2019), and we hope our study advances this debate through its comparative, long-term perspective. Our results also inform reform-oriented debates about implications of the United States (or states and cities within it) moving away from its strict two-party system (Santucci, 2020). While most research addresses the drivers of affective polarization and partisan hostility, our findings suggest a potential remedy , namely, electoral institutions that motivate cooperative coalition governments.…”

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The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility

Horne

Adams

Gidron

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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Comparative politics scholars argue that consensual democratic institutions encourage power-sharing that promotes “kinder, gentler” politics. We uncover one reason why this is the case: elite inter-party cooperation in consensual systems is associated with reduced inter-party hostility in the mass public. This is because governing parties’ supporters feel much more warmly toward their coalition partner(s) than we can explain based on policy agreement alone. Moreover, these warm affective evaluations linger long after the coalition itself has dissolved. We substantiate our arguments via analyses of CSES survey data from 19 Western democracies between 1996 and 2017, showing that current and past co-governance is associated with substantially warmer inter-party affective evaluations. This implies that electoral systems which encourage coalition governance may defuse partisan hostility.

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“…This supports Americanists' arguments about the benefits of a move toward a more proportional electoral system (Drutman, 2020;Rodden, 2019). Our findings also speak to implications of the United States (or states and cities within it) moving away from its strict two-party system (Santucci, 2020).…”

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The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility

Horne

Adams

Gidron

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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“…In reality, though, SSD often allow an electoral plurality-and sometimes even an electoral minority-to win a majority of seats in parliament and dominate the legislative process. The ideal of simple majoritarianism then degenerates into "pluralitarian" democracy (Nagel 1998;Santucci 2020).…”

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Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism

Ganghof¹

2021

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In a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentration of executive power in a single human being is not. The book defends this thesis and explores ‘semi-parliamentary government’ as an alternative to presidential government. Semi-parliamentarism avoids power concentration in one person by shifting the separation of powers into the democratic assembly. The executive becomes fused with only one part of the assembly, even though the other part has at least equal democratic legitimacy and robust veto power on ordinary legislation. The book identifies the Australian Commonwealth and Japan, as well as the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia, as semi-parliamentary systems. Using data from 23 countries and 6 Australian states, it maps how parliamentary and semi-parliamentary systems balance competing visions of democracy; it analyzes patterns of electoral and party systems, cabinet formation, legislative coalition-building, and constitutional reforms; it systematically compares the semi-parliamentary and presidential separation of powers; and it develops new and innovative semi-parliamentary designs, some of which do not require two separate chambers.

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Multiparty America?

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The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility

The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility

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