TY  - GEN
A1  - Franzmann, Simon T.
T1  - Competition, contest, and cooperation
N2  - Although party competition is widely regarded as an important part of a working democracy, it is rarely analysed in political science literature. This article discusses the basic properties of party competition, especially the patterns of interaction in contemporary party systems. Competition as a phenomenon at the macro level has to be carefully distinguished from contest and cooperation as the forms of interaction at the micro level. The article gives special attention to the creation of issue innovations. Contrary to existing approaches, I argue that not only responsiveness but also innovation are necessary to guarantee a workable democratic competition. Competition takes place on an issue market, where parties can discover voters’ demands. Combined with the concept of institutional veto points, the article presents hypotheses on how institutions shape the possibility for programmatic innovations.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 80 
KW  - cooperation
KW  - innovation
KW  - issue market
KW  - party competition
KW  - veto point
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40296
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-402961
ER  -