four scales for enp adrian blau aim of the article: - evaluating advantages and disadvantages in...
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Four scales for ENPAdrian Blau
Aim of the article:
- Evaluating advantages and disadvantages in different approaches to party systems
- Propose a more fine-grained analysis of party systems focusing on their different aims
- Suggest a set of indices to reflect the different functions performed by parties in party systems
- Illustrate the new approach using the United Kingdom and Germany as example of pluralitarian and proportional systems
«How we count depends on where we look»
Seats and votes
Competition for government
Qualitative (Sartori - Relevant partiesBlondel - GermanySiaroff - UK)
Quantitative ENP NV = 1/ ∑ivi2
NS = 1/ ∑isi2
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Pluralitarian vs. Proportional party systems
Proportional Democrats examine how well party systems manifest political equality at the different stages of the political process
Pluralitarial Democrats examine how well party systems permit accountable, stable, single party governments
Legislative parties
OPP2005 = 645-356 = 289 CON share =197/289=68,17% Lopp = 0,1+0,1=0,2 Lcon= 0,68*0,2=0,14
Cabinet parties
NC = 1 / ∑i ci2
Where ci is the share of cabinet position of party i
Pluralitarian:
NV and NS lowNL = NC = 1
Proportional
NV ≈ NS ≈ NL ≈ NC
2005 L points Rescale Li
sqrt ENPLi
CON 0.14 0.11666. 0.0136
LAB 1 0.83333. 0.6944
LDEM 0.04 0,03 0.00111.
… 0.04 …
tot 1.20 1 0.71 1.408
OPP2005 = 645-356 = 289 CON share =197/289=68,17% Lopp = 0,1+0,1=0,2 Lcon= 0,68*0,2=0,14
2005 L points Rescale Li
sqrt ENPLi
CDU/CSU 0.50 0,3424 0.1172
SPD 0.50 0.3424 0.1172
FDP 0.17 0.1164 0.0135
GR 0.14 0.0958 0.0091
PDS 0.15 0.1027 0.0105
tot 1.46 0.2675 3.73