The Changing Institutional Environment, Party Systems, and Electoral Behaviour

Abstract

This panel will analyse the electoral effects of the institutional changes taking place in European party systems. More specifically, we want to examine two aspects of this evolving process: the shift from mass-membership to candidate-centred parties dominated by modern communication techniques, and the continued development of the newly evolving party systems in Central and Eastern Europe. In both cases, we care about how these changes affect the strategy of the actors, the shaping of preferences, and the character of the electoral environment. Papers may come from various theoretical and empirical approaches and may focus on any of the institutional changes. The panel seeks to examine how parties and actors are reacting strategically to the new challenges, but in the context of how these new strategies affect the traditional causal relationships between structural change, preference formation, and election outcomes.

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