In the first three post-war decades, the party system in the old Federal Republic was concentrated on the two major …, the 2.5-party system became a six-party system. This article analyses the economic background of this development. It … growth rates and stagnation or falling real incomes led to the fragmentation of the party system. …

fragmentation of the party system in the Algerian political system within the period from 1997 to 2017, in which Algeria has … exacerbation of the Algerian party system's fragmentation, compared to other factors. Design/methodology/approach The essence of … party system as a dependent variable. The starting point for that framework is to reassess the "Duverger's law," which …

the case of Germany’s multi-party system, two online survey experiments with a representative sample of the German voting …