Regional party systems: concept formation
The article characterizes regional party systems as a phenomenon of modern politics. The author proceeds from the concept of a region as an intrastate subnational territorial unit. The formation of the concept of party systems in political science is described, which began with V. O. Key’s book on the dominance of the Democratic Party in the southern states of the United States in the 1920s-1940s. Key’s conclusions on the one-party specifics of the southern states, sharply distinguishing them from the classical two-party system of the federal level, later fit well into R. Dahl’s concept of multi-level polyarchies; however, they were criticized by such well-known experts in the field of comparative study of party systems as G. Sartori and A. Ware. In particular, Sartori called “unit-jump fallacies” any attempts to single out regional party systems, especially one-party ones. However, he recognized that the US party system has a two-tier structure and extended the model of a pre-dominant party system to the southern states. Equally inconsistent was criticism from Ware, who noted differences in party politics at the federal and regional levels, but insisted that they did not matter to the development of national party systems. Only at the beginning of the 21st century L. Bardi and P. Mair substantiated the possibility of forming their own party systems in subfederal regions and showed their differences from national party systems. Also of great importance is the broader concept of “federalized party system”, which was introduced by E. Gibson and J. Suarez-Cao. The federalized party system consists of national and subnational (regional and local) party systems. The author’s analysis of the most common definitions of the regional party system shows the need to adjust them. Taking into account the conclusions of theoretical and empirical studies, the article proposes the author's definition and description of regional party systems. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
Keywords
political competition,
regional party system,
federalized party systemAuthors
| Shpagin Sergey A. | Tomsk State University | shpagin1972@mail.ru |
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