Umfang:
1 online resource (261 pages)
ISBN:
9780191521942
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 On the Freezing of Party Systems -- Laws and Structures -- Constraints, Control, and Adaptation -- Part II: Persistence and Change -- 2 Continuities, Changes, and the Vulnerability of Party -- What Parties Are and What Parties Do -- Left, Right, and Policy Competition -- Left, Right, and Voter Alignments -- A Crisis of Party? -- Catch-all Politics and Party Vulnerability -- Organizational Change and Electoral Change -- Organizational Change: a Research Agenda -- 3 The Problem of Party System Change -- Party Change versus Party System Change -- Party System Change -- Electoral Volatility and Cleavage Change -- How Much Electoral Change? -- The Electoral Bias -- Key Problems -- 4 Myths of Electoral Change and the Survival of the 'Old' Parties -- Levels of Electoral Volatility -- The Survival of Traditional Parties -- What Sustains the Myths of Electoral Change? -- The Neglect of Party -- Part III: Party Organizations and Party Systems -- 5 Party Organization, Party Democracy, and the Emergence of the Cartel Party (with Richard S. Katz) -- The Mass Party and the Catch-All Party -- Stages of Party Development -- Parties and the State -- The Emergence of the Cartel Party -- The Characteristics of the Cartel Party -- Democracy and the Cartel Party -- Challenges to the Cartel Party -- 6 Popular Legitimacy and Public Privileges: Party -- New Perspectives on the Development of Party Organizations -- Party Democracies and the Problem of Party Decline -- Parties and the State -- Changing Parties -- Parties and Their Privileges -- Part IV: Party Systems and Structures of Competition -- 7 Electoral Markets and Stable States -- Developments and Contrasts in Western Europe -- Electoral Markets and Consociational Democracy -- Small States and Large States.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780198292357
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780198292357
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3052753
Mehr zum Autor:
Mair, Peter 1951-2011
