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Informationen zum Autor Heather Stoll is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds an MPhil in politics from the University of Oxford and an MS in statistics and PhD in political science from Stanford University. She is a 1996 Harry S. Truman Scholar and a 1997 British Marshall Scholar. Her Stanford dissertation, on which this book is loosely based, was the co-recipient of the Seymour Martin Lipset Award for the best comparative politics dissertation in 2005. She has published a number of articles in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Party Politics and West European Politics. Klappentext Stoll studies how society shapes democratic political competition, with a focus on the number of political parties. Zusammenfassung Stoll studies how society shapes democratic political competition! focusing on the number of political parties. The book develops the most general theory about how society shapes the number of parties to date! as well as the most extensive measures of social heterogeneity! which it uses to test its hypotheses. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Social heterogeneity and the number of parties: a theory; 3. Describing social heterogeneity: measures and testable hypotheses; 4. Social heterogeneity and party system fragmentation: empirical evidence across space and time; 5. Israel: new parties for new groups?; 6. Israel: testing hypotheses about sectarian party success; 7. The United States: new parties for new groups? Testing hypotheses; 8. Conclusion: party system fragmentation and beyond.
