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What are the main determinants of party systems? Are party systems in Western Europein the process of radical change?
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What are the main determinants of party systems? Are party systems in Western Europe in the process of radical change? Introduction In this essay I intend to examine the reasons for party systems being in place, and what the different systems are. Then I will look at three Western European countries to see what party systems they have in place and whether or not their party systems are radically changing. Firstly, I think that it is necessary to classify what is meant by a party system. It is most commonly understood as being 'the number of parties in competition' (Mair 1997). Historical factors have meant that European parties have developed differently, and these differences are sometimes due to differences in social structure, some social cleavages existed in certain countries and not others (e.g ethnic diversity). According to Peter Mair they depend to what extent particular cleavages wee effectively politicized; factors such...
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