Party System Change
Approaches and Interpretations
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 27 March 1997
- ISBN 9780198292357
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 225x147x21 mm
- Weight 484 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Amidst the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, it offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analysed and understood.
MoreLong description:
This unique and important new book looks at how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and `freeze' themselves into place. Amidst the widespread contemporary discussion of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, it offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analysed and understood.
The first part of the book deals with questions of persistence and change, and with the vulnerability and endurance of traditional parties. In the second part, attention shifts to the question of party organization, and to the ways in which the established parties are increasingly coming to invade the state, finding there a new source of privilege and a new means of ensuring their own survival. The third part of the book focuses on structures of competition in Western party systems, as well as on the problems associated with the consolidation of the new party systems in post-communist Europe.
This is the first book to be entirely devoted to the question of party and party system change, and offers and essential guide to the understanding of this crucial theme.
Peter Mair has produced a book that represents political science at its most erudite ... It is a learned work based on wide reading. It is brimming with references to the contributions of other scholars.
Table of Contents:
Part I Introduction
On the Freezing of Party Systems
Part II Persistence and Change
Continuities, Changes, and the Vulnerability of Party
The Problem of Party System Change
Myths of Electoral Change and the Survival of the `Old' Parties
Part III Party Organizations and Party Systems
Party Organization, Party Democracy, and the Emergence of the Cartel Party
Popular Legitimacy and Public Privileges: Party Organizations in Civil Society and the State
Part IV Party Systems and Structures of Competition
Electoral Markets and Stable States
What is Different about Post-Communist Systems?
Party Systems and Structures of Competition
Part I Introduction
On the Freezing of Party Systems
Part II Persistence and Change
Continuities, Changes, and the Vulnerability of Party
The Problem of Party System Change
Myths of Electoral Change and the Survival of the `Old' Parties
Part III Party Organizations and Party Systems
Party Organization, Party Democracy, and the Emergence of the Cartel Party
Popular Legitimacy and Public Privileges: Party Organizations in Civil Society and the State
Part IV Party Systems and Structures of Competition
Electoral Markets and Stable States
What is Different about Post-Communist Systems?
Party Systems and Structures of Competition
