The Convergence Coefficient across Political Systems

Table 3

MNL spatial model for countries with proportional systems.

Var	Israel^b		Turkey^d			Poland^c
	Party	1996	Party	1999	2002	Party	1997
Distance		Est.^a; |𝑡−value|		Est.^a; |𝑡−value|	Est.^a; |𝑡−value|		Est.^a; |𝑡−value|
𝛽		1.207***; (18.43)		0.375***; (4.26)	1.52***; (12.66)		1.739***; (15.04)
Valence	𝜆Lik	0.777***; (4.12)	𝜆DSP	0.724***; (4.73)		𝜆SLD	1.419***; (7.47)
	𝜆Lab	0.999****; (6.06)	𝜆MHP	0.666***; (4.53)	−0.12; (0.66)	𝜆PSL	0.073; (0.33)
	𝜆NRP	−0.626***; (2.53)	𝜆FP	−0.159; (0.90)		𝜆AWS	1.921***; (11.05)
	𝜆MO	−1.259***; (4.38)	𝜆ANAP	0.336***; (2.19)	−0.31; (1.63)	𝜆UW	0.731***; (3.67)
	𝜆TW	−2.291***; (8.30)	𝜆CHP	0.734***; (4.12)	1.33***; (7.40)	𝜆UP	−0.56***; (2.13)
	𝜆Shas	−2.023***; (6.45)	𝜆HADEP	−0.071; (0.30)	0.43*; (2.0)	𝜆UPR	−2.348***; (4.69)
			𝜆AKP		0.78***; (5.2)
Base party		Meretz		DYP^d	DYP^d		ROP^c
𝑛		922		635	483		660
𝐿𝐿		−777		−1183	−737		−855

a∗prob < 0.05; ∗∗prob < 0.01; ∗∗∗prob < 0.001.
^bIsrael: Lik: Likud; Lab: Labor; NRP: Mafdal; Mo: Moledet; TW: Third Way.
^cPoland: SLD: Democratic Left Alliance; PSL: Polish People's Party; UW: Freedom Union; AWS: Solidarity Election.
Action; UP: Labor Party; UPR: Union of Political Realism; ROP: Movement for Reconstruction of Poland; SO: Self Defense; PiS: Law and Justice; PO: Civic Platform; LPR: League of Polish Families; DEM: Democratic Party; SDP: Social Democracy of Poland.
^dTurkey: DSP: Democratic Left Party; MHP: Nationalist Action Party; FP: Virtue Party; ANAP: Motherland Party; CHP: Republican People's Party; HADEP: People's Democracy Party; DYP: True Path Party.