정치학/사회과학/인문교육 계열 계량적 논문 소개

(* This is the ch.16 of "Patterns of Democracy" by Arend Lijphart) The conventional wisdom, cited in the previous chapter, argues—erroneously, as I have shown—that majoritarian democracy is better at governing, but admits that consen sus democracy is better at representing—in particular, representing minority groups and minority interests, representing everyone more accurately, and representing ..

Political Science 2022. 12. 9. 23:11

(*This is the ch.14 of "Patterns of Democracy" by Arend Lijphart) In this brief chapter I summarize the main findings of Chapters 5 through 13, which have dealt with each of the ten basic majoritarian versus consensus variables. I focus on two as pects of the “grand picture”: the two-dimensional pattern formed by the relationships among the ten variables and the positions of each of the thirty-s..

Political Science 2022. 12. 9. 18:01

Octavio Amorim Neto, University of California, San Diego Gary W. Cox, University of California, San Diego Theory: A classic question in political science concerns what determines the num ber of parties that compete in a given polity. Broadly speaking, there are two ap proaches to answering this question, one that emphasizes the role of electoral laws in structuring coalitional incentives, and an..

Political Science 2022. 12. 5. 00:56

THE TRANSFORMATION OF CLEAVAGE STRUCTURES INTO PARTY SYSTEMS Conditions for the Channelling of Opposition Thus far, we have focused on the emergence of one cleavage at a time and only incidentally concerned ourselves with the growth of cleavage systems and their translations into constellations of political parties. But cleavages do not translate themselves into party oppositions as a matter of ..

Political Science 2022. 11. 25. 20:08

SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET AND STEIN ROKKAN Whatever the structure of the polity, parties have served as essential agencies of mobilization and as such have helped to integrate local communities into the nation or the broader federation. This was true of the earliest competitive party systems, and it is eminently true of the single-party nations of the post-colonial era. In his insightful analysis of..

Political Science 2022. 11. 25. 20:03

In recent decades, debate about electoral engineering has moved from margin to mainstream on the policy agenda in many nations. Political discussions about electoral reform have revolved largely around the practical options, the sometimes bewildering combination of trade-off choices, and the consequences of particular reforms to the status quo within each state. Underlying these pragmatic argume..

Political Science 2022. 11. 22. 18:56

Before we can examine the impact of rules on voting behavior and political representation, I first need to outline a typology of the main families of electoral systems and classify their subtypes. The most important institutions influencing electoral rules can be divided into three nested components, ranging from the most diffuse to the most specific levels. ● The constitutional structure repres..

Political Science 2022. 11. 20. 17:08

SCOTT MAINWARING, University of Notre Dame Starting from recent analyses that have argued that presidentialism is less favorable for building stable democracy than parliamentary systems, this article argues that the combination of a multiparty system and presidentialism is especially inimical to stable democracy. None of the world's 31 stable (defined as those that have existed for at least 25 c..

Political Science 2022. 11. 13. 19:17