Presentation topic 2: Lipset and Rokan revisted: How does social structure influence the party system?

Suggested readings:

Stathis N. Kalyvas. The rise of Christian Democracy in Europe. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1996. (LEHMAN JN94.A979 K35 1996)

Powell Jr., G. Bingham, Contemporary Democracies. Participation, Stability and Violence (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), chapter 5.

Chhibber, “Electoral Strategies, Social Cleavages, and Party Systems in a New Democracy: Spain” Comparative Political Studies, Feb. 1997 pp. 27-54 (with Mariano Torcal

Ordeshook and Shvetsova. "Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties," American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 38, No. 1. (Feb., 1994), pp. 100-123.

Gary Cox, Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1997, chapter 11. (LEHMAN RESERVES JF1001 .C69 1997)

Herbert Kitschelt, “Class Structure and Social Democratic Party Strategy,” in British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 23, No. 3. (Jul., 1993), pp. 299-337.

Mozaffar S, Scarritt JR, Galaich G, “Electoral institutions, ethnopolitical cleavages, and party systems in Africa's emerging democracies,” American Political Science Review, 97 (3): 379-390 AUG 2003

Andersen R, Yaish M. “Social cleavages, electoral reform and party choice: Israel's 'natural' experiment” Electoral Studies 22 (3) (SEP 2003): 399-423.

Taagepera R. “The number of parties as a function of heterogeneity and electoral system,” Comparative Political Studies, 32 (5): 531-548 AUG 1999.

Jones MP. “Electoral laws and the effective number of candidates in presidential elections,” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 61, No. 1. (Feb., 1999), pp. 171-184.

Neto OA, Cox GW. “Electoral institutions, cleavage structures, and the number of parties,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 41, No. 1. (Jan., 1997), pp. 149-174.