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Series:   Elements in European Politics

Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2023

Peter A. Hall ,
Georgina Evans  and
Sung In Kim
Peter A. Hall
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Georgina Evans
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Sung In Kim
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Summary

This Element documents long-term changes in the politicalattitudes of occupational groups, shifts in the salience of economic and cultural issues, and the movement of political parties in the electoral space from 1990 to 2018 in eight Western democracies. We evaluate prominent contentions about how electoral contestation has changed and why support for mainstream parties has declined while support for challenger parties has increased. We contribute a new analysis of how the viability of the types of electoral coalitions assembled by center-left, center-right, radical-right, and Green parties changes over these decades. We find that their viability is affected by changes over time in citizens' attitudes to economic and cultural issues and shifts in the relative salience of those issues. We examine the contribution these developments make to declining support for mainstream center-left and center-right coalitions and increasing support for coalitions underpinning radical-right and Green parties.
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Series: Elements in European Politics
Online ISBN: 9781009431378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 10 August 2023

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