Party System Change : Approaches and Interpretations
This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Amidst the widespread contemporary discussions 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
History
1 online resource (261 pages)
9780191521942, 0191521949
1058568590
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: Introduction
1 On the Freezing of Party Systems
Laws and Structures
Constraints, Control, and Adaptation
Part II: Persistence and Change
2 Continuities, Changes, and the Vulnerability of Party
What Parties Are and What Parties Do
Left, Right, and Policy Competition
Left, Right, and Voter Alignments
A Crisis of Party?
Catch-all Politics and Party Vulnerability
Organizational Change and Electoral Change
Organizational Change: a Research Agenda
3 The Problem of Party System Change. Party Change versus Party System Change
Party System Change
Electoral Volatility and Cleavage Change
How Much Electoral Change?
The Electoral Bias
Key Problems
4 Myths of Electoral Change and the Survival of the 'Old' Parties
Levels of Electoral Volatility
The Survival of Traditional Parties
What Sustains the Myths of Electoral Change?
The Neglect of Party
Part III: Party Organizations and Party Systems
5 Party Organization, Party Democracy, and the Emergence of the Cartel Party (with Richard S. Katz)
The Mass Party and the Catch-All Party. Stages of Party Development
Parties and the State
The Emergence of the Cartel Party
The Characteristics of the Cartel Party
Democracy and the Cartel Party
Challenges to the Cartel Party
6 Popular Legitimacy and Public Privileges: Party
New Perspectives on the Development of Party Organizations
Party Democracies and the Problem of Party Decline
Parties and the State
Changing Parties
Parties and Their Privileges
Part IV: Party Systems and Structures of Competition
7 Electoral Markets and Stable States
Developments and Contrasts in Western Europe. Electoral Markets and Consociational Democracy
Small States and Large States
Some Implications for the New East European Democracies
8 What is Different about Post-Communist Party Systems?
Newly Emerging Party Systems
Post-Communist Democratization is Different
The Electorate and the Parties are Different
The Context of Competition is Different
The Pattern of Competition is Different
9 Party Systems and Structures of Competition
Approaches to the Classification of Party Systems: a Review
Party Systems and the Competition for Government. Party Systems and Electoral Outcomes
References
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