The authors present a theory that seeks to explain why parties change their political
strategies, organizational characteristics and issue positions. Whereas most of the existing …

Political parties in established democracies face a trade-off between changing their policy
positions in pursuit of votes and adhering to their previous positions in order to reduce risks …

This article reports the first empirical findings based on data from a major study of party
change. Hypotheses are developed linking party change to both internal and external …

Making use of a unique data set that includes more than 1000 leadership elections from
over 100 parties in 14 countries over an almost 50 year period, this volume provides the first …

This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the
increasing relevance of European governance. The Europeanization of National Political …

What has become of the Communist parties that once held monopoly power in the east
bloc? A decade ago, it was assumed that they would dissolve, but many of them have …

This paper focuses upon a hybridperformance hypothesis' positing that an established party
will change its ideological identity in reaction to a successful new party only when the …

This article summarises the rapidly increasing number of studies dealing with parties'
positional changes. After a short introduction and a brief discussion of a number of …

Party organization has regained a new momentum in the party literature over the past
decade. In this context, we review the most important advances in the literature and critically …

Other works have asked whether parties matter; this article asks whether parties' dominant
factions matter. Special focus is placed on whether change in dominant faction or coalition …