Party politics in new democracies / edited by Paul Webb and Stephen White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Webb, Paul, 1959 April 15-

White, Stephen, 1945-

European Consortium for Political Research.

Series:

Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)

Comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties.

New democracies.

Physical Description:

xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. The General Editors are Professor Alfio Mastropaolo, University of Turin and Kenneth Newton, University of Southampton and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin . Theseries is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.The sister volume to Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational development andfunctional performance of political parties in Latin America and postcommunist Eastern Europe. It demonstrates the generational differences between parties in the old and new democracies, and reveals contrasts among the latter. Parties are shown to be at their most feeble in those recentlytransitional democracies characterized by personalistic, candidate-centred forms of politics, but in other new democracies - especially those with parliamentary systems - parties are more stable and institutionalized, enabling them to facilitate a meaningful degree of popular choice and control.Wherever party politics is weakly institutionalized, political inequality tends to be greater, commitment to pluralism less certain, clientelism and corruption more pronounced, and populist demagoguery a greater temptation. Without party, democracy's hold is more tenuous.

Contents:

Conceptualizing the institutionalization and performance of political parties in new democracies / Paul Webb & Stephen White

Russia's client party system / Stephen White

Political parties in Ukraine : virtual and representational / Andrew Wilson & Sarah Birch

Poland : party system by default / Krzysztof Jasiewicz

Building party government : political parties in the Czech and Slovak Republics / Petr Kopecký

The only game in town : party politics in Hungary / Zsolt Enyedi & Gábor Tóka

Parties and governability in Brazil / Barry Ames & Timothy J. Power

'Que se vayan todos!' : the struggle for democratic party politics in contemporary Argentina / Celia Szusterman

Strong parties in a struggling party system : Mexico in the democratic era / Joy Langston

The durability of the party system in Chile / Alan Angell

Political parties in Costa Rica : democratic stability and party system change in a Latin American context / John A. Booth

Political parties in new democracies : trajectories of development and implications for democracy / Paul Webb & Stephen White.

Notes:

"ecpr."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199289653

0199289654

OCLC:

122701448