ABSTRACT
How political parties behave in order to attract support has been a question central to liberal democratic theory ever since Schumpeter's famous reformulation of democracy as a political system where two or more (party) elites must periodically compete for mass electoral endorsement in order to gain temporary control of governmental power. We concentrate on four key accounts integrally related to the models of voting behaviour discussed in Chapter 1: https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003533252/950b6aba-3378-480f-9c22-b1e0b3c2fc03/content/fig1_2_7.tif"/> We discuss how each account explains party organization, party leaders’ strategies, party system behaviour and party behaviour in government.
