Party system change : approaches and interpretations
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Party system change : approaches and interpretations
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c1997
Available at 35 libraries
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This unique and important new book looks at how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and `freeze' themselves into place. Amidst the widespread contemporary discussion of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, it
offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analysed and understood.
The first part of the book deals with questions of persistence and change, and with the vulnerability and endurance of traditional parties. In the second part, attention shifts to the question of party organization, and to the ways in which the established parties are increasingly coming to invade the state, finding there a new source of privilege and a new means of ensuring their own survival. The third part of the book focuses on structures of competition in Western party systems, as well
as on the problems associated with the consolidation of the new party systems in post-communist Europe.
This is the first book to be entirely devoted to the question of party and party system change, and offers and essential guide to the understanding of this crucial theme.
Table of Contents
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE
- PART III PARTY ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTY SYSTEMS
- PART IV PARTY SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES OF COMPETITION
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE
- PART III PARTY ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTY SYSTEMS
- PART IV PARTY SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES OF COMPETITION
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