- I used canonical analysis to test
some theory about the relationship of party organization
to party performance in an early paper:
- "Variations in Party Organization
Across Nations and Differences in Party Performance,"
paper delivered at the 1979 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Washington,
D.C.
- Tyler Colman helped me update that
paper for publication in Political Studies in
1998.
- Our research examined different ways
to measure "party organization":
- centralization
- complexity
- involvement
- factionalism
- And different ways to measure "party
performance":
- electoral success
- breadth of activities
- legislative cohesion
- Many scholars have sought to "type"
parties:
- Wright
distinguished between the 'rational-efficient'
and 'party democracy' models of behaviour
according to their functions, structural
characteristics, party processes, and evaluative
criteria.
- Such
typologies rest on trait
configurations
- We call
these trait configurations 'party
syndromes'--patterns of common party traits that
are exaggerated by certain parties in contrast to
other parties.
- The two party
syndromes that we devised to test with canonical
analysis
were
- the
doctrinaire party syndrome, and
- the
mobilizing party syndrome
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