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Co-opting the state: how weak parties can make stable party systems
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posted on 2023-06-09, 23:33 authored by Albertus SchoemanConventional understandings of party system institutionalisation assume that institutionalised parties are necessary for interparty competition to stabilise. However, this approach neglects the role of the state in shaping party competition. Using survey data from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, it is shown that weakly institutionalised parties can lead to institutionalised party systems if parties are able to successfully co-opt the state and use state resources to supplement party deficiencies. By developing a relationship that intertwines parties with the state, parties in young democracies do not need to institutionalise for stable party systems to form.
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Commonwealth and Comparative PoliticsISSN
1466-2043Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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1-24Department affiliated with
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