Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies

by Paul Webb, David M. Farrell, Ian Holliday

Overview

Drawing on the expertise of an impressive team of internationally known specialists, the book engages systematically with the evidence to show that, while a degree of popular cynicism towards them is often chronic, though rarely acute, parties have adapted and survived as organizations, remodelling themselves to the needs of an era in which patterns of linkage and communication with social groups have been transformed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199240562
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/10/2003
Series:	Comparative Politics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

University of Sussex

University of Manchester

City University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, Paul Webb2. Political Parties in Britain: Secular Decline or Adaptive Resilience?, Paul Webb3. Italian Parties, Change and Functionality Luciano Bardi4. Party Decline in the Parties State? The Changing Environment of German Politics, Susan E. Scarrow5. France: Never a Golden Age, Andrew Knapp6. The Colour Purple: The End of Predictable Politics in the Low Countries, Kris Deschouwer7. The Scandinavian Party Model at the Crossroads, Jan Sundberg8. Party Politics in Ireland: Regularizing a Volatile System, R. J. Murphy and David M. Farrell9. Spain: Building a Parties State in a New Democracy, Ian Holliday10. Parties at the European Level, Simon Hix11. Still Functional After All These Years: Parties in America, 1960-2000, John C. Green12. Canada's 19th Century Cadre Parties at the Millennium, R. Kenneth Carty13. Political Parties in Australia: Party Stability in a Utilitarian Society, Ian McAllister14. Parties and Society in New Zealand, Jack Vowles15. Conclusion: Political Parties and Democratic Control in Advanced Industrial Societies, Paul Webb