The Core of the Party System

• In Event: (Re)Examining Party Concepts, Laws, and Theories

Brief Overview

We implement tests of the hypothesis that a political party is a core party using voter survey data. Parties identified by the tests feature distinct attributes and are at least 25% more likely to participate in government.

Authors

• Tasos Kalandrakis, University of Rochester

• Zuheir Desai, Princeton University