Party collapse and new party entry
Abstract
The entry and success of new parties has become a regular event in modern democracies. From the emergence of green to protest parties, new movements have entered the electoral arena. This article addresses one of the less studied aspects of new parties: the dynamic process of party exit and entry into politics. The article argues that changes to the party system, produced by the collapse of a political party, can lead to the successful entrance of new parties in the next election. The premise is that one party’s loss is a future one’s gain. The empirical results provide strong evidence that the size of the policy space created by a party collapse has a substantial impact on the level of new party’s success.
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Denise Laroze is a political scientist, working at the Centre For Experimental Social Science (CESS) Universidad de Santiago – Nuffeld College Oxford, with a PhD in Government from the University of Essex. Her research interests include methodology, experiments, political and social behaviour. She approaches these topics from a broad methodological perspective including advanced econometrics and experimental designs. She has previously worked on party entry behaviour in Latin America and Europe, and has conducted experimental studies on majoritarian bargaining. Her current research focuses on cheating behaviour using laboratory experiments.
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