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Bridging the Divide: Measuring Party System Change and Classifying Party Systems
Author(s) -
Pelizzo Riccardo,
Nwokora Zim
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
politics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.259
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 1555-5623
DOI - 10.1111/polp.12188
Subject(s) - mythology , democracy , politics , political science , humanities , bridge (graph theory) , public administration , law , history , art , classics , medicine
Party systems research has proceeded along two parallel lines of inquiry, one predominantly “qualitative” and the other “quantitative.” This article attempts to bridge this divide in two ways. First, by showing that qualitative information can be valuable in the construction of quantitative measures. Second, by showing that the results from applying theoretically sensitive measurement tools can be useful for qualitative classification. These analyses are performed using an original dataset of party system changes in Sub-Saharan Africa