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  • One of the most widely examined properties of party systems is the counting of the number of parties. Research has posited that the number of parties affects the representation of social cleavages in voting behavior, election turnout, patterns of political conflict, and other party system effects. This article argues that research typically counts the quantity of parties, and often the more important property is the quality of party competition—the polarization of political parties within a party system. We begin by discussing the concept of party system polarization in the research literature; and why polarization is important to study. Second, we provide a new measurement of party system polarization based on party positions in the two waves of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). This includes more than fifty separate elections, spanning more than three dozen nations from the established and developing democracies. Third, and most important, we compare party fractionalization and party polarization as influences on the strength of cleavage and ideological alignments in voting choice, and as predictors of turnout levels. The results indicate that party polarization is theoretically and empirically more related to the behavioral outcomes. (xsd:string)
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  • The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems: Party System Polarization, its Measurement and its Consequences (xsd:string)
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