Springing up like mushrooms after the rain: „New” parties in Montenegro’s institutionalised party system

Recent years have seen the formation of new parties across Europe that challenge established patterns of party competition and coalition-building during elections. While a similar trend of party creation has occurred in Montenegro, these new parties have failed to „deinstitutionalise” the party syst...

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Autor principal:	Stankov Nemanja
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2019
Materias:	montenegro new parties fragmentation party system institutionalisation Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e544ee3ca911442b9198ae1e3ec031922021-12-02T19:04:29ZSpringing up like mushrooms after the rain: „New” parties in Montenegro’s institutionalised party system1801-342210.2478/pce-2019-0007https://doaj.org/article/e544ee3ca911442b9198ae1e3ec031922019-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2019-0007https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422Recent years have seen the formation of new parties across Europe that challenge established patterns of party competition and coalition-building during elections. While a similar trend of party creation has occurred in Montenegro, these new parties have failed to „deinstitutionalise” the party system. This article tracks the development process for new parties. At the same time, it looks at factors and settings that have enabled (or impeded) the institutionalisation of these parties and their relative success in parliamentary elections. Two peculiar findings arise from my analysis. First, it appears that the fragmentation of the traditional party system has only happened among opposition parties (with the notable exception of a split among social democrats). This raises questions about the reasons for this process and its effect on party competition. It also leads to a second finding: though more than five effective political parties have been created since 2012, they have failed to change established party competition. To a limited degree, these parties have shifted the focus of public debate from identity politics to the economy, but the party system remains highly ientrenched. In other words, coalition-building is as predictable as ever.Stankov NemanjaSciendoarticlemontenegronew partiesfragmentationparty system institutionalisationPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 163-185 (2019)
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description	Recent years have seen the formation of new parties across Europe that challenge established patterns of party competition and coalition-building during elections. While a similar trend of party creation has occurred in Montenegro, these new parties have failed to „deinstitutionalise” the party system. This article tracks the development process for new parties. At the same time, it looks at factors and settings that have enabled (or impeded) the institutionalisation of these parties and their relative success in parliamentary elections. Two peculiar findings arise from my analysis. First, it appears that the fragmentation of the traditional party system has only happened among opposition parties (with the notable exception of a split among social democrats). This raises questions about the reasons for this process and its effect on party competition. It also leads to a second finding: though more than five effective political parties have been created since 2012, they have failed to change established party competition. To a limited degree, these parties have shifted the focus of public debate from identity politics to the economy, but the party system remains highly ientrenched. In other words, coalition-building is as predictable as ever.
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title	Springing up like mushrooms after the rain: „New” parties in Montenegro’s institutionalised party system
title_short	Springing up like mushrooms after the rain: „New” parties in Montenegro’s institutionalised party system
title_full	Springing up like mushrooms after the rain: „New” parties in Montenegro’s institutionalised party system
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Springing up like mushrooms after the rain: „New” parties in Montenegro’s institutionalised party system

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