Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy
Organization, Resilience, and Reform
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 July 2024
- ISBN 9780198888734
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages640 pages
- Size 240x160x40 mm
- Weight 1064 g
- Language English 550
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Short description:
Instead of taking a regional approach which dominates the literature on political parties, this volume takes a global perspective. It brings together experts from four continents, which opens up fresh comparative perspectives on the role of political parties in the democratic process.
MoreLong description:
Democracy is in decline and the share of world's population living in freedom under democratic government has decreased considerably as authoritarian practices proliferate. Surprisingly, most of the analyses that study these developments give little attention to the role of political parties in the decline of democracy although there is a broad consensus about the relevance of political parties for the functioning of democracy.
How parties can contribute to democracy is best understood by looking at a very diverse range of cases in different parts of the world. Instead of taking a regional approach which dominates the literature on political parties, this volume takes a global perspective. It brings together experts from four continents, which opens up fresh comparative perspectives on the role of political parties in the democratic process.
Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy asks how parties contribute to the consolidation of democracy, why they fail today, why new parties emerge and displace old parties, and also what parties need to do in order to survive cutthroat competition, above all with a new (and sometimes not so new) variants of populist parties.
It takes a unique global focus, covering old and new democracies in different regions of the world. It covers Western and Central Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, Turkey and Israel, including presidential, semi-presidential, and parliamentary democracies and also some countries where democracy is seriously threatened or eroding.
This volume offers unique comparative perspectives combined with a detailed analysis of individual countries and their party systems. It shows that parties are central actors for the consolidation of democracy, but that organisational reforms are necessary to cope with social change such as individualisation, the decline in party membership and the impact of new media and modern communication, thus counteracting the fragmentation of party systems and the decay of democracy.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This useful edited collection describes the political party systems in 23 different countries. Included are established democracies in Western Europe and Japan and democratic and semi-democratic systems in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Readers should come to this volume with some background in comparative politics and a familiarity with at least some party systems.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Analyzing political parties and democracy: Themes, questions, problems
Political parties and democratic challenges in Western and Central Europe, Israel and Turkey
The United Kingdom party system
French political parties and democracy
The long way towards polarized pluralism: Party and party system change in Germany
Fragmentation and anti-establishment politics: Czech party system in the 2020s
Italian parties and party system(s)
The Greek party system's ongoing crisis: the cases of ND, SYRIZA, and PASOK-KINAL
Parties and the party system in Turkey: From the system of “double tutelage” to a “personalistic hybrid regime”
The Portuguese party system - a realignment?
Spain: Party system change and fragmentation
Party organizational development in Poland (2001-2021): The cases of Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO)
Political parties and democracy: The Israeli case
Political parties and democratic challenges in Latin America
Weakening of the Mexican party system: The rise of AMLO'S MORENA
The Colombian party system, 1991-2021: Deinstitutionalized but flexible and resilient
Political parties in Brazil: Tradition and trends in the new democracy
Democracy and political parties in the Argentine republic
Political parties and democratic challenges in Asia-Pacific
Taiwan: Party system of a young consolidated democracy
The development of party organizations in new democracies: Evidence from South Korea
Japan: Struggle for party system change
The Challenges to Democracy in India: The Role of Political Parties
An anarchy of parties: The pitfalls of the presidential-based party system in the Philippines
Political parties and democratic challenges Africa
Political parties and democracy in South Africa
Political parties in Nigeria's Fourth Republic (1999-2019)
The state of political party development in Ghana
Concluding Section: The Crisis of Democracy and Political Parties
Can the parties be helped? Political party assistance in international cooperation
Parties and democracy: A difficult relationship
