Tag: Eva Falk Pedersen

The complexity of a party system does not affect the ideological compatibility of voters and political parties

The complexity of a party system does not affect the ideological compatibility of voters and political parties

In multi-party political systems, it has been argued that voters have more difficulties in matching their own programme with that of a political party. Joris Boonen, Eva Falk Pedersen and Marc Hooghe argue that there are differences between countries, but these are not explained by the complexity of the party system: the number of competing parties is […]