POLI 328 Study Guide - Final Guide: Party System, Multidimensional System, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 328
• Professor: Sven- Oliver Proksch

Document Summary

Example id: must define and insert examples of id, put it in context. Free movement of people and goods between member states. Which countries participated (eu member states) and some nonmember states. Threshold number of votes a party must receive to get a vote in parliament: parties have to form coalitions, natural threshold, formal threshold: District magnitude: the number of seats in a district. High district magnitude means more likely to have smaller parties in parliament. Dealignment: electoral volatility: has to do with niche parties (green, far-right, electoral volatility in that there are changing results from one election to another (ex. Far right party can have a lot of success one election, non the other) Freezing hypothesis: we have these big party families (liberal, social dems, christian dems) and those are going to be frozen (always present) parties: are going to be parties that stick around.