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When parties die: A cross-national analysis of party disalignment and realignment.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	When parties die: A cross-national analysis of party disalignment and realignment./
Author:	Mack, Charles S.
Description:	368 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John K. White.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	History, Canadian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3294701
ISBN:	9780549388326

When parties die: A cross-national analysis of party disalignment and realignment.
Mack, Charles S.

When parties die: A cross-national analysis of party disalignment and realignment. - 368 p.

Adviser: John K. White.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2008.

This dissertation examines why major political parties die, a topic rarely discussed in political science literature. The new term, party disalignment, describes both the phenomenon of party collapse and a theory offered here to explain it.

ISBN: 9780549388326Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017564
History, Canadian.

When parties die: A cross-national analysis of party disalignment and realignment.
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520 $a This dissertation examines why major political parties die, a topic rarely discussed in political science literature. The new term, party disalignment, describes both the phenomenon of party collapse and a theory offered here to explain it.
520 $a Only three clear-cut occurrences of major-party demise have been identified in consolidated party systems, all in countries with first-past-the-post electoral systems. These are analyzed here as case studies: the American Whig Party (1853-1854); the British Liberal Party (1918-1924); and Canada's Progressive Conservative Party (1993).
520 $a Disalignment theory asserts that leadership failures and schisms in values or ideology on issues of overriding national socioeconomic importance led traditional core-base voters to abandon these parties. A new or previously minor party then displaced the disrupted party, followed by a secular realignment. The disaligned party suffered either immediate destruction, or permanent reduction to minor-party status and subsequent merger with another minor party.
520 $a Disalignments are electoral events, conceptually related to another party-system phenomenon---party realignment. This dissertation proposes a new realignment theory based on changes in voting behavior among medial ('swing') voters---in contrast to losses within the party base that drive disalignments. It also proposes a typology of elections, based on these proposed new theories.
520 $a The preconditions of disalignment are determined from case-study historical and political analysis. All four of the following conditions must exist: (1) A failure of party leadership on (2) intensely held positions on major socioeconomic cleavage issues affecting concepts of national identity that (3) alienates core-base voters, and propels them to abandon the party (4) for a new or previously existing minor party that is ideologically compatible and available to receive these disaffected base voters. A probable fifth condition is the presence of a first-past-the-post electoral system.
520 $a The dissertation concludes that to maintain major-party status political parties must protect the integrity of their partisan voter base. Loss of medial voters risks electoral defeat and perhaps even an occasional adverse realignment. Loss of the base, however, threatens disalignment and the party's ability to contend ever again for political power.
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