In a Straightjacket: Party System Institutionalization, Polarization, and the Rise of Populism in the Americas and Europe

• In Event: Institutional Incentives Across Regime Types

Brief Overview

The paper argues that in contexts of intense polarization party system institutionalization can be detrimental to democracy and tests the argument with a mixed methods approach.

Authors

• Steffen Blings, Utah State University

• Laura Gamboa, University of Utah