Information visualization has become an increasingly important issue for political and social sciences with the accumulation of large amount of data from various sources. In this paper, we present PartyTracker, a new visualization tool that allow user to analyze the long-term party affiliation survey data from people with different demographic background across the United States. To visualize t...

In this article we explore the semantic space spanned by self-reported statements of Republican voters. Our semantic structure analysis uses multidimensional scaling and social network analysis to extract, explore, and visualize word patterns and word associations in response to the stimulus statement "I'm a Republican, because …" which were collected from the official website of the Republican...

“The Labor Party movement is a political earthquake of the first magnitude. The American capitalist class issued its Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The day of the Declaration of Independence of the American working class will be the day of the founding of its independent political party. July 3 and 4, 1923, the date of the Convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, can be in history th...

This paper examines theory and evidence on party competition in the U. S. Congress in the allocation of members to committees. Parties allocate members to committees to maximize the joint utility of its members, taking into account how the committees’ memberships affect the legislation adopted by the legislature. Parties are constrained by both institutional rules and the heterogeneity of party...

A party is dominant if there is a majority coalition to which that party belongs such that it affords this party more possibilities to form an alternative winning coalition than any of the other members of the coalition (see Peleg [1980, 1981]). In this article I present empirical evidence showing that an allocation of seats in a parliament is biased toward the high frequency occurrence of a do...

Political parties are widely recognised as indispensable actors in democratic systems. One way to illustrate the actions and role of political is explicate various party functions that may be carried out a system. The aim this paper explore relationships between organisation education five specific Sweden. empirical material consists interviews with officials from all eight were represented nat...