Parties Without Partisans : Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Russell J. Dalton

ISBN 10: 0199253099 / ISBN 13: 9780199253098

Editore: OUP Oxford, 2002

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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• Titolo: Parties Without Partisans : Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies
• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199253099
• ISBN 13: 9780199253098
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 156 A x 18 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 18 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 503 grammi

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Riassunto

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the roles that political parties perform in twenty O.E.C.D. 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.

Recensione

'...this is a very good book. Serious students of political parties, and indeed anyone interested in the challenges facing modern electoral democracies, will want to read it ... The editors deserve much credit for producing that rarest of academic products - a genuinely integrated collection in which the whole is more than its (very substantial) parts.' (Party Politics)

'. . . this volume represents a milestone in the debate about the role of political parties in advanced industrial democracies at the beginning of the twenty-first century.' (West European Politics)

'This collection of studies is a welcome addition to party literature. The editors have brought together a range of experts who provide sophisticated yet accessible accounts of different spheres of party roles - their electoral connections, parties as political organizations, and their part in Government. Parties without Partisans sets a marker against which future studies are likely to be judged.' (Professor Smith, Emeritus Professor of Government, London School of Economics and Politics)