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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.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50601 - Political science

Result continuities

  • Project

  • 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