The Proscription Paradox: Banning Parties Based on Threshold Requirements and Electoral Volatility in Latin America
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F23%3A50020141" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/23:50020141 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.37" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.37</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.37" target="_blank" >10.1017/lap.2022.37</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Proscription Paradox: Banning Parties Based on Threshold Requirements and Electoral Volatility in Latin America
Original language description
Banning political parties is an extreme institutional measure that democracies tend to use sparingly. Nevertheless, Latin American countries frequently proscribe their parties through rules that activate dissolution for not reaching a certain number of votes or seats in an election. Such rules are expected to stabilize and simplify party systems. However, a competing theory suggests that such rules instead promote electoral volatility by injecting political uncertainty into the party system through cyclical refoundation of extinct parties and the mechanical effects of parties’ exits. Attempting to resolve this paradox, this analysis tests the effect of dissolution thresholds on electoral volatility in all Latin American democratic elections since 1980. Party bans based on dissolution thresholds are found to promote electoral volatility, which bears implications for democratic governance.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Latin American Politics and Society
ISSN
1531-426X
e-ISSN
1548-2456
Volume of the periodical
65
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
31-54
UT code for WoS article
000919325100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85159579395