Revision sheet for the Party Systems module of Oxford University's Practice of Politics (political science) paper.
Received a First.

Revision sheet covers the following papers:

General cleavages:

● Lipset and Rokkan, "Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction" 
● Sartori, "Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis (1976)" 
● Duverger, "Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State" 

Sociological Determinants: 

● Mair, Peter. 1997. Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations, Oxford University Press. Chapters 1-4 
● Hagopian, Frances. 2009. “Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, eds. Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 582-603. 

Institutional Determinants:

● Cox, Gary W.1997. Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1/ chapter 2 
● Ahmed, Amel. 2012. Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice. Engineering Electoral Dominance. (introduction, Ch. 5 (UK), and Ch. 7 (Belgium). 
● Nikolenyi, Csaba. 2014. “Party System Institutionalization in India.” In Party System Institutionalization in Asia, eds. Allen Hicken and Erik Martinez Kuhonta. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 189-211. 
● Bishop, Matthew Louis, Jack Corbett, and Wouter Veenendaal. 2020. “Labor Movements and Party System Development: Why Does the Caribbean Have Stable Two-Party Systems, but the Pacific Does Not?” World Development 126 (February): 104719.