De Effecten van Partijregulering en Institutionalisering op Post-Communistische Democratie: een Case-Analyse van Letland en Oekraïne

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Politicologie (BSc)

Sluman, B. (2014)

De Effecten van Partijregulering en Institutionalisering op Post-Communistische Democratie: een Case-Analyse van Letland en Oekraïne

Bachelor thesis | Politicologie (BSc)

This thesis aims to explain diverging democratic transitions in two Post-Communist states. The degree and manner of party system institutionalization and party regulation is presuppossed to have a major impact on both democratization as the way party democracy is functioning. The study uses a time-series method of analysis to identify changes in party system regulation and links these changes to the stability of a party system such as electoral volatility and party strength. By doing so, this thesis delivers a valuable insight in the pivotal role party system institutionalization plays in democratization and the stabilization of young party systems.

Party system institutionalization