id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt k6439z92c7q Edurne Zoco The Collapse of Party Systems in Italy, Peru, and Venezuela: A Cross-Regional Theory 2010 .txt text/plain 262 11 42 This study contributes to the existing literature on collapse by offering a clear definition and operationalization of party system collapse and contending that causes of collapse are common across cases and that can be identified following a process-tracing methodology. This dissertation develops a cross-regional theory of party system collapse. cache/k6439z92c7q.txt txt/k6439z92c7q.txt