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Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Post-Communist Societies

Ian McAllister

The Australian National University, ian.mcallister{at}anu.edu.au

Stephen White

University of Glasgow, Scotland, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, s.white{at}socsci.gla.ac.uk

Political parties have a central role to play in democratic consolidation, yet we know comparatively little about how effectively they represent social cleavages in newly emerging democracies. Using the Lipset-Rokkan framework, this article examines the role of parties in articulating social cleavages in 14 established and 6 emerging democracies using the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems datasets. The results show that the social cleavages in the emerging democracies are similar to those of the established democracies, with religion and class predominating. Parties appear to be less effective in representing social cleavages in the emerging than in the established democracies.

Key Words: democratic consolidation • party systems • post-communism • social cleavages

Party Politics, Vol. 13, No. 2, 197-216 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1354068807073858
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