Political Cleavages and Party Systems

Merkl, Peter H.

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“…6 Brady 2001. 21 Some notable articles include Goodin 1975, Lipset 1959, Merkl 1969, Taylor and Rae 1969, Zuckerman 1975, and Powell 1976 Although the notions of "political cleavages" and "realignment" were not entirely a result of the behavioral revolution, they received a great impetus from it. 10 Hamilton, Madison, and Jay 1982, 51.…”

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“…20 Spencer 1914, 564. 21 Some notable articles include Goodin 1975, Lipset 1959, Merkl 1969, Taylor and Rae 1969, Zuckerman 1975, and Powell 1976 Although the notions of "political cleavages" and "realignment" were not entirely a result of the behavioral revolution, they received a great impetus from it. Scaling received impetus from behavioralism and then from political methodology, especially Rice 1928, Beyle 1931, Turner 1951, Schubert 1962, MacRae 1965, Poole and Rosenthal 1985, and Clinton, Jackman, and Rivers 2004 course, the spatial model developed from the work of Black 1948and 1958, Downs 1957, Davis, Hinich, and Ordeshook 1970, McKelvey 1975, and many others, especially those affiliated with the University of Rochester under the leadership of William Riker.…”

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The Art of Political Science: Spatial Diagrams as Iconic and Revelatory

Brady¹

2011

Perspect. polit.

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Spatial diagrams of politics could and should be iconic for political science in much the same way as supply-and-demand curves are in economics. Many fundamental problems of political science can be connected with them, and many different concepts-such as ideological constraint, cross-pressures, framing, agenda-setting, political competition, voting systems, and party systems, to name just a few-can be illuminated through spatial diagrams. Spatial diagrams raise questions and provide insights. They suggest political maneuvers, possible realignments, and political problems. They provide us with revealing images that aid memory and facilitate analysis. They are a powerful way to think about politics, and we could not do better than to feature them in our textbooks, to use them in our research, and to exhibit them as our brand-as our distinctive way of thinking about how the world works APSA Presidential Address

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The Art of Political Science: Spatial Diagrams as Iconic and Revelatory

Brady¹

2011

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“…In their pivotal work on conflicts and their translation from and into party systems, Lipset and Rokkan [19] show that divergent attitudes between culturally dominant and subjected populations, workers in primary and secondary economic activities, and supporters of established and subversive values generate more or less salient divides between voters. The overlap of cleavages and the spatial cluster of voters produces local and regional contrasts in partisan supports, macroscopic patterns in vote outcomes and a geographic institutionalization of conflicts [20].…”

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The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations

Koseki¹

2018

PLoS ONE

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Scholarly studies and common accounts of national politics enjoy pointing out the resilience of ideological divides among populations. Building on the image of political cleavages and geographic polarization, the regionalization of politics has become a truism across Northern democracies. Left unquestioned, this geography plays a central role in shaping electoral and referendum campaigns. In Europe and North America, observers identify recurring patterns dividing local populations during national votes. While much research describes those patterns in relation to ethnicity, religious affiliation, historic legacy and party affiliation, current approaches in political research lack the capacity to measure their evolution over time or other vote subsets. This article introduces "Dyadic Agreement Modeling" (DyAM), a transdisciplinary method to assess the evolution of geographic cleavages in vote outcomes by implementing a metric of agreement/disagreement through Network Analysis. Unlike existing approaches, DyAM offers a stable measure for political agreement and disagreementaccounting for chance, statistically robust and remaining structurally independent from the number of entries and missing data. The method opens up to a range of statistical, structural and visual tools specific to Network Analysis and its usage across disciplines. In order to illustrate DyAM, I use more than 680,000 municipal outcomes from Swiss federal popular votes and assess the evolution of political cleavages across local populations since 1981. Results suggest that political congruence between Swiss local populations increased in the last forty years, while regional political factions and linguistic alignments have lost their salience to new divides. I discuss how choices about input parameters and data subsets nuance findings, and consider confounding factors that may influence conclusions over the dynamic equilibrium of national politics and the strengthening effect of globalization on democratic institutions.

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“…Los dos primeros responden a lo que comúnmente se ha pensado como una dimensión territorial-cultural, mientras que los dos últimos a la dimensión funcionaleconómica (Merkl, 1969). A partir de esas dicotomías, según los autores, fueron generándose los sistemas de partidos, emergiendo organizaciones políticas que defendían cada uno de estos intereses, produciendo lo que denominaron "Verzuiling" o "pilarización".…”

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Hacia una relectura de los clivajes políticos. El kirchnerismo como reconfiguración del clivaje peronismo-antiperonismo

Solca

2016

ABRA

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Resumen: El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo consiste en recuperar la noción de clivaje pensándola desde una mirada discursiva y a partir de allí presentar al kirchnerismo como discurso que restituye la centralidad del clivaje peronismo-antiperonismo en la sociedad argentina. Primeramente, se reflejan los abordajes que se le han dado desde la ciencia política a la noción de clivaje. Posteriormente, a distancia de ellos se propone mirar al clivaje en términos discursivos, como un conflicto entre polos que se reproduce a lo largo de la historia, desplazando su sentido en base a los usos que de él se hacen (iteración) y (re)apareciendo una y otra vez en la contemporaneidad (espectralidad). Finalmente, partiendo de reconocer al peronismo-antiperonismo como clivaje estructurante de la política argentina de los últimos 70 años, se enuncian tres formas en que ese clivaje reaparece en la escena contemporánea a través del kirchnerismo y sus apropiaciones.Palabras clave: Clivajes; Kirchnerismo; Postestructuralismo; Teoría Política del Discurso; Iteración. Abstract:The main purpose of this paper was to recover the notion of cleavage from a discursive approach to thereafter present Kirchnerismas a discourse that restores the centrality of the Peronism-Antiperonism cleavage in the Argentinean society. First, the author mentions how political sciences have approached the notion of cleavage. Second, unlike that approach, the author proposes cleavage to be seen from a discursive point of view, as a conflict between discursive poles that is reproduced throughout history, switching its course based on how it is used (iteration) and (re)appearing from time to time contemporaneously (spectrality). Finally, after recognizing Peronism-Antiperonism as a structural cleavage of the Argentinean politics in the last 70 years, the author mentions three ways in which this cleavage reappears in the contemporary scene through Kirchnerismo and its appropriations.

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Political Cleavages and Party Systems

Cited by 7 publications

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The Art of Political Science: Spatial Diagrams as Iconic and Revelatory

The Art of Political Science: Spatial Diagrams as Iconic and Revelatory

The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations

Hacia una relectura de los clivajes políticos. El kirchnerismo como reconfiguración del clivaje peronismo-antiperonismo

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