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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`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. ... readers will soon discover that one of its many virtues is its clear prose, straightforward presentation of comparative evidence, and comfortable balance between the particular and the general. ... 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 is a very good book. Serious students of political parties, and indeed anyone interested in the challenges eacing modern electoral democracies, will want to read it. ... readers will soon discover that one of its many virtues is its clear prose, straightforward presentation of comparative evidence, and comfortable balance between the particular and the general. ... 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 is a very good book. Serious students of political parties, and indeed anyone interested in the challenges eacing modern electoral democracies, will want to read it. ... readers will soon discover that one of its many virtues is its clear prose, straightforward presentation of comparative evidence, and comfortable balance between the particular and the general. ... 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
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Russell J. Dalton, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine. Martin P. Wattenberg, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine.
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ONE of the most important measures of the nature of party-based democracy is public attachment to political parties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
party enrolment, respective national election studies, dealignment trend, mass party model, adjacent elections, contemporary electorates, voting simple majority, presiding body, organizational coverage, most advanced industrial democracies, annum change, cognitive mobilization, partisan dealignment, turnout decline, partisan change, partisan ties, roll call data, responsible party government, electoral research, legislative parties, party attachments, party cohesion, partisan attachments, election programme, party transformation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Social Democrats, British Labour Party, Second World War, Christian Democrats, Conservative Party, Electoral Studies, Tony Blair, Michael Thies, Utd Kingdom, Comparative Manifestos Project, Cold War, European Journal of Political Research, European Parliament, New Politics, Thomas Poguntke, Clive Bean, European Union, Jan Sundberg, Kris Deschouwer, Leon Epstein, Liberal Democrats, Luciano Bardi New!
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ONE of the most important measures of the nature of party-based democracy is public attachment to political parties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
party enrolment, respective national election studies, dealignment trend, mass party model, adjacent elections, contemporary electorates, voting simple majority, presiding body, organizational coverage, most advanced industrial democracies, annum change, cognitive mobilization, partisan dealignment, turnout decline, partisan change, partisan ties, roll call data, responsible party government, electoral research, legislative parties, party attachments, party cohesion, partisan attachments, election programme, party transformation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Social Democrats, British Labour Party, Second World War, Christian Democrats, Conservative Party, Electoral Studies, Tony Blair, Michael Thies, Utd Kingdom, Comparative Manifestos Project, Cold War, European Journal of Political Research, European Parliament, New Politics, Thomas Poguntke, Clive Bean, European Union, Jan Sundberg, Kris Deschouwer, Leon Epstein, Liberal Democrats, Luciano Bardi New!
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