Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies / Edition 1

by Russell J. Dalton, Martin P. Wattenberg

Overview

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the roles that political parties perform in twenty OECD nations. It finds that parties continue to exercise their traditional roles in organizing elections and structuring the government process, but that they are losing the allegiance of a public that is increasingly non-partisan and sceptical about political parties as institutions. These findings lead to a discussion about the changing nature of representative democracy as these nations enter the 21st Century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199253098
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/23/2002
Series:	Comparative Politics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	9.24(w) x 6.28(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

both at the University of California, Irvine

Table of Contents

IntroductionChapter 1 Unthinkable Democracy: Political Change in Advanced Industrial DemocraciesPart I Parties in the ElectorateChapter 2 The Decline of Party IdentificationsChapter 3 The Consequences of Partisan DealignmentChapter 4 The Decline of Party MobilizationPart II Parties as Political OrganizationsChapter 5 Parties without Members? Party Organization in a Changing Electoral EnvironmentChapter 6 Political Parties as Campaign OrganizationsChapter 7 From Social Integration to Electoral Contestation: The Changing Distribution of Power within Political PartiesPart III Parties in GovernmentChapter 8 Parties in Legislature: Two Competing ExplanationsChapter 9 Parties at the Core of GovernmentChapter 10 From Platform Declarations to Policy Outcomes: Changing Party Profiles and Partisan Influence over PolicyChapter 11 On the Primacy of Party in Government: Why Legislative Parties Can Survive Party Decline in the ElectorateConclusionChapter 12 Partisan Change and the Democratic Process

Editorial Reviews

"...a cohesive study of party change in the late 20th century in most of the advanced democracies...indispensable for graduate students, researchers, and faculty."—hoice

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