Martin P. Wattenberg (, Department of Political Science, University

Parties Without Partisans

Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Herausgeber: Dalton, Russell J.; Wattenberg, Martin P.

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the roles that political parties perform in 20 OECD nations. The text finds that parties continue to exercise their traditional roles in organizing elections and structuring the government process, but they are losing the allegiance of a public that is increasingly non-partisan and sceptical about political parties as institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Comparative Politics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780199253098
• ISBN-10: 0199253099
• Artikelnr.: 21600096

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Unthinkable Deomocracy: Political Change in Advanced Industrial
Democracies
* Part I. Parties in the Electorate
* The Decline of Party Identification
* The Consequences of Partisan Dealignment
* The Decline of Party Mobilization
* Part II. Parties as Political Organizations
* Parties without Members? Party Organizations in a Changing Electoral
Environment
* Political Parties as Campaign Organizations
* From Social Integration to Electoral Contestination: The Changing
Distribution of Power within Political Parties
* Part III. Parties in Government
* Parties in Legislature: Two Competing Explanations
* Parties at the Core of Government
* From Platform Declarations to Policy Outcomes: Changing Party
Profiles and Partisan Influence over Policy
* On the Primacy of Party in Government: Why Legislative Parties Can
Survive Party Decline in the Electorate
* Conclusion
* Partisan Change and the Democratic Process