How does government spending affect party fragmentation in emergent democracies? This paper considers that parties affect the environment within which they compete. As a result, supply-side factors – such as government spending – may affect party fragmentation. We investigate how government...

Are new democracies with divided governments and volatile parties politically ill-fated? The literature suggests so, but cases of emergent democracies, such as Taiwan and Brazil that face both conditions, defy the prediction. This paper explains why: Party volatility follows from pursuing...

How does economic performance and partisanship affect government approval and democratic support in democratizing Asia? Much of extant examination has skirted Asia. This paper extends the study of the effects of economic performance to Asia's democratizing nations of Taiwan, Thailand, South...