A supply-demand model of party system institutionalization: the Russian case
Rose, Richard and Mishler, William (2010) A supply-demand model of party system institutionalization: the Russian case. Party Politics, 16 (6). pp. 801-822. ISSN 1354-0688 (https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068809346074)
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An accountable democracy requires institutionalized parties. A supply—demand model hypothesizes that institutionalization is a function of four sets of influences: stability in election law, persisting commitments to parties by political elites and by voters, and learning by elites and by voters. The hypotheses are tested with aggregate data from nine nationwide elections in Russia since 1993, in which institutionalization and its complement, volatility, are decomposed. Survey data from the 2007—8 round of Russian elections is then used to test the extent of institutionalization through party identification. Logit analysis shows that the high level of support for President Putin’s new party, United Russia, is based on temporary rather than durable influences. The political elite’s volatile supply of parties has created a ‘floating’ party system and a delegative democracy with implications for new democracies on other continents.
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Item type: Article ID code: 39775 Dates: DateEvent2010PublishedSubjects: Political Science > Political institutions (Europe)
History General and Old World > Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet RepublicsDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 29 May 2012 09:32 Last modified: 02 Jun 2024 07:20 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/39775