Fernando Casal Bértoa
University of Nottingham
70 Papers
156 Citations
Fernando Casal Bértoa is an academic researcher from University of Nottingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 55 publications. Previous affiliations of Fernando Casal Bértoa include European University Institute & Leiden University.
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Papers
Party systems and cleavage structures revisited : a sociological explanation of party system institutionalization in East Central Europe
TL;DR: Since Lipset and Rokkan (1967) published their seminal work on the importance of social cleavages for the freezing of party systems more than forty years ago, much has been written on the field of political analysis as mentioned in this paper.
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Mapping 'militant democracy': Variation in Party Ban Practices in European Democracies (1945-2015)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explained party bans, political and legal contexts, and evolving rationales for party bans and procedures for proscription, as well as the history of party proscription and proscription.
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The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors unpacked the underlying questions addressed by different uses of Pedersen's index, and offered standards for choosing particular methods over others and outlined steps that should be followed in creating a more accurate measure of volatility.
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Institutionalization and De-institutionalization in Post-communist Party Systems:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the validity of Mair's predictions and contribute to a lively debate in the current literature about the scale and nature of East-West differences and about the trajectories of th...
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The world upside down: Delegitimising political finance regulation:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether a relationship indeed exists between perceived corruption of political parties and the regulation of political finance and found that such a relationship does exist, although not in the direction commonly stipulated by the advocates of party finance regulation.
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