Making Sense of Party systems

Making Sense of Party systems Getting oriented

Party systems: • System: any regular, recurring pattern of interaction • Party system: the context in which parties operate and interact with each other. • `Systemness’ – a party’s strategy, tactics, and behaviour affected (among other things) by what other parties do • what one party does influences others – they need to take account of its behaviour, strategies, the support which it can win

Getting oriented: A look at some party systems • Canada • UK • Germany • Sweden • Netherlands

The Canadian Party System • How would you describe it? • Number of parties? • Who competes with whom? • Dimensions • How important is the systemic element?

Some answers: • Two, three, four or 4+ parties? • Incomplete competition: • not everyone competes with everyone else • One dimensional or multi-dimensional? • Relations between provincial party systems and the federal party system?

The UK Party System • The 19th c party system Liberals Liberal Unionists Conservatives _____________________________________ Irish Nationalists • The 20th c party system Labour Liberals Conservatives

The Federal Republic of Germany 1957-1983: SPD FPDCDU/CSU _______________________________ 1983-1989: G SPD FDP CDU/CSU _______________________________ 1990-present PDSG SPD CDU/CSU FDP __________________________________

Sweden pre-1990: Left SDCentre Liberal Conservative __________________________________ From the 1990s: Left SDCentreLib Cons New Democ. ___________________________________

Making Sense of Party systems

Making Sense of Party systems

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