Richard Gunther / José Ramón Montero / Juan Linz (eds.)

Political Parties

Old Concepts and New Challenges
Herausgeber: Gunther, Richard; Linz, Juan; Montero, José Ramón

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Produktbeschreibung

Several of the world's leading scholars present critical analyses (both conceptual and empirical) of important substantive themes on political parties in contemporary democracies. They critically re-examine the classic concepts and typologies that have guided research in this field over the past decades, and explore new challenges faced by parties today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780198296690
• ISBN-10: 019829669X
• Artikelnr.: 22071813

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I. Reconceptualizing parties and party competition
* Parties: denied, dismissed, or redundant
* Still the age of catch-allism? Volksparteien and Parteienstaat in
crisis and reequilibration
* Electoral and party competition: analytical dimensions and empirical
problems
* Part II. Reexaming party organization and party models
* The ascendancy of the party in public office: party organizational
change in 20th-century democracies
* Beyond the catch-all party: approaches to the study of parties and
party organization in contemporary democracies
* Party organization and party performance: the case of the French
Socialist party
* A crisis of institutionalisation: the collapse of the UCD in Spain
* Part III. Revisiting Party linkages and attitudes toward parties
* Antiparty sentiments in Southern Europe
* Parties in contemporary democracies: problems and paradoxes