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The Reaffirmation of a Multiparty System in France

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  • Schlesinger, Joseph A.
  • Schlesinger, Mildred

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In accord with the office-seeking theory of parties, we explore the impact of the structure of electoral competition on French parties. We speculated that the Fifth Republic's electoral structure—dual-ballot elections in single-member districts—would produce a multiparty system consisting of parties tailored to the two-ballot mode of winning. To test our proposition we devised two measures of winning for the members of the national assembly's partisan groups: the percentage of members who won the absolute majority that was needed to win on the first ballot and the average shift in the electoral margin of the groups' remaining members from the first to the second ballot. The two measures revealed four distinct ways of winning, each of which fostered a prototypical party.

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  • Schlesinger, Joseph A. & Schlesinger, Mildred, 1990. "The Reaffirmation of a Multiparty System in France," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 84(4), pages 1076-1101, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:84:y:1990:i:04:p:1076-1101_21
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    1. Wolfgang C. Müller, 1993. "The Relevance of the State for Party System Change," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 5(4), pages 419-454, October.

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