
Parties Without Partisans : Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies.
Title:
Parties Without Partisans : Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies.
Author:
Wattenberg, Martin P.
ISBN:
9780191528996
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Series:
Comparative Politics
Contents:
Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Unthinkable Democracy: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies -- PART I. PARTIES IN THE ELECTORATE -- 2. The Decline of Party Identifications -- 3. The Consequences of Partisan Dealignment -- 4. The Decline of Party Mobilization -- PART II. PARTIES AS POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS -- 5. Parties without Members? Party Organization in a Changing Electoral Environment -- 6. Political Parties as Campaign Organizations -- 7. From Social Integration to Electoral Contestation: The Changing Distribution of Power within Political Parties -- PART III. PARTIES IN GOVERNMENT -- 8. Parties in Legislature: Two Competing Explanations -- 9. Parties at the Core of Government -- 10. From Platform Declarations to Policy Outcomes: Changing Party Profiles and Partisan Influence over Policy -- 11. On the Primacy of Party in Government: Why Legislative Parties Can Survive Party Decline in the Electorate -- CONCLUSION -- 12. Partisan Change and the Democratic Process -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
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 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 representation democracy as these nations enter the 21st Century.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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