Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations
This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret 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. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood.
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Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations
This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret 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. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood.
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Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations

Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations

by Peter Mair
Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations

Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations

by Peter Mair

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This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret 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. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198292357
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/29/1997
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 5.62(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.78(d)
Lexile: 1600L (what's this?)

About the Author

Netherlands Graduate School of Political Science and International Relations

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction1.. On the Freezing of Party SystemsPart II Persistence and Change2.. Continuities, Changes, and the Vulnerability of Party3.. The Problem of Party System Change4.. Myths of Electoral Change and the Survival of the ‘Old' PartiesPart III Party Organizations and Party Systems5.. Party Organization, Party Democracy, and the Emergence of the Cartel Party6.. Popular Legitimacy and Public Privileges: Party Organizations in Civil Society and the StatePart IV Party Systems and Structures of Competition7.. Electoral Markets and Stable States8.. What is Different about Post-Communist Systems? 9.. Party Systems and Structures of Competition
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