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“Split” Constituencies and the Impact of Party Control
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2016
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Understanding the policy relevance of parties in the states has not been easy. Key (1949: 309–12) argued that parties that differed should pursue and enact different public policies. Studies have found sigificant differences between legislative parties (Jewell 1955; LeBlanc 1969). Indices of interparty competition have been constructed and their impact assessed on the assumption that high competition has a clear impact on policy. The results, however, have not supported that assumption. Interparty competition has generally shown little relationship to public policy levels (Dawson and Robinson 1963; Dye 1966; Tucker 1982; Garand 1988: 844).
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