Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
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20 line drawings, 24 tables
ISBN:
9780226830247
Inhalt:
An illuminating investigation into why some parties evolve with their times while others fall behind. Around the world, established political parties face mounting pressures: insurgents on the Left and Right, altered media environments, new policy challenges, and the erosion of traditional strongholds, to name just a few. Yet parties have differed enormously in their ability to move with the times and update their offers to voters. This variation matters. While adaptation does not guarantee a party's electoral success, the failure to modernize can spell its decline, even collapse, and create openings for radical and populist parties that may threaten the future of liberal democracy. Parties under Pressure examines why some parties adapt meaningfully to social, economic, and political transformations while others flounder, focusing especially on the fate of Western Europe's Christian democratic parties. Matthias Dilling reveals the under-appreciated importance of party factions. While very high levels of factionalism are counter-productive and create paralysis, more moderate levels of factionalism help parties to adapt by giving visibility to fresh groups and ideas. Dilling draws on extensive archival research in Germany, Italy, and Austria, as well as evidence from France, Japan, and beyond. Taking a comparative-historical approach, Parties under Pressure sheds new light on parties' varying records of adaptive reforms over more than seventy-five years
Inhalt:
"Under pressure around the world, political parties have differed enormously in their ability to update their offers to voters. This variation is important. While party adaptation does not equal electoral success, parties' failure to "move with the times" has often resulted in their decline and even collapse, making room for radical and populist parties and causing widespread concern over the future of liberal democracy. Focusing on the varying fate of one of Europe's most prominent party families, Christian Democracy, Parties Under Pressure examines why some parties adapt meaningfully to social, economic, and political transformations, while others struggle to do so. Integrating party politics and institutional theory, the book emphasizes the importance of party factions in helping new groups to rise and new ideas to circulate, cautions against a too high level of factionalism, and develops a comparative framework to study the emergence and development of different levels of factionalism and party adaptation. Based on extensive archival research in Germany, Italy, and Austria and additional shadow cases from the same sample of parties as well as France and Japan, the book provides evidence on political parties' varying record of adaptive reforms over more than 75 years"--
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations i -- Part I Problem and Theory -- Part II The Main Cases -- Part III Comparative Perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dilling, Matthias, 1987 - Parties under pressure Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024 ISBN 9780226830230
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226830254
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
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