TY - JOUR
T1 - Stability and incorporation
T2 - Toward a new concept of party system institutionalization
AU - Piñeiro Rodríguez, Rafael
AU - Rosenblatt, Fernando
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - Party system institutionalization (PSI) is a critical dimension of modern democracies. However, conventional approaches to institutionalization do not include party systems’ ability to adapt and respond to challenges that emanate from society, one of the crucial traits in Huntington’s definition of institutionalization. We discuss conventional approaches to the analysis of PSI. Building upon the idea of social orders put forth by North, Wallis, and Weingast, we argue that the analysis of institutionalization at the level of party systems must consider the system’s ability to provide open access and to include all sectors: that is, the system’s ability to incorporate demands that emanate from society. We propose a new conceptualization and operationalization of PSI, and we present a new data set of PSI indicators for 18 Latin American countries. Finally, we analyze the data to assess the level of PSI and type of party system in each Latin American country.
AB - Party system institutionalization (PSI) is a critical dimension of modern democracies. However, conventional approaches to institutionalization do not include party systems’ ability to adapt and respond to challenges that emanate from society, one of the crucial traits in Huntington’s definition of institutionalization. We discuss conventional approaches to the analysis of PSI. Building upon the idea of social orders put forth by North, Wallis, and Weingast, we argue that the analysis of institutionalization at the level of party systems must consider the system’s ability to provide open access and to include all sectors: that is, the system’s ability to incorporate demands that emanate from society. We propose a new conceptualization and operationalization of PSI, and we present a new data set of PSI indicators for 18 Latin American countries. Finally, we analyze the data to assess the level of PSI and type of party system in each Latin American country.
KW - Latin America
KW - conceptualization
KW - incorporation
KW - party system institutionalization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047436231&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1354068818777895
DO - 10.1177/1354068818777895
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85047436231
SN - 1354-0688
VL - 26
SP - 249
EP - 260
JO - Party Politics
JF - Party Politics
IS - 2
ER -