Party governance and party democracy : festschrift to Kaare Strøm / Wolfgang C. Müller, Hanne Marthe Narud, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strøm, Kaare.

Müller, Wolfgang C., 1957-

Narud, Hanne Marthe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties.

Political party rules.

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer, [2013]

Summary:

Given the centrality of political parties in modern democracies, most research on thesesystems either directly address their internal functioning and activities or question their critical role. Political science has moved from describing institutions to the thorough analysis of behavior within these institutions and the interactions between them. The inevitable consequences of the maturing and institutionalization of the discipline of political science in many countries include the forming of sub-fields and specialized research communities. At the same time the number of democracies has vastly increased since the 1980s and although not each attempt at democratization was eventually successful, more heterogeneous systems with some form of party competition exist than ever before. As a consequence, the literature addressing the large issues of party democracy spreads over many research fields and has become difficult to master for individual students of party democracy and party governance. The present volume sets out to review the behavior and larger role of political parties in modern democracies. In so doing the book takes its departure from the idea that the main contribution of political parties to the working of democracy is their role as vehicles of political competition in systems of government. Consequently the focus is not merely in the internal functioning of political parties, but rather their behavior the electoral, legislative, and governmental arenas. Thus several chapters address how political parties perform within the existing institutional frameworks. One more chapter looks at the role of political parties in building and adapting these institutions. Finally, two chapters explicitly address the party contributions to democracy inestablished and new democracies, respectively.

Contents:

Party Governance and Party Democracy / Wolfgang C. Müller, Hanne Marthe Narud

Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies / Benjamin Nyblade

How Parties Govern: Political Parties and the Internal Organization of Government / Torbjörn Bergman, Alejandro Ecker

Economic Performance, Political Institutions and Cabinet Durability in 28 European Parliamentary Democracies, 1945-2011 / Thomas Saalfeld

Electoral Responsiveness, Party Government, and the Imperfect Performance of Democratic Elections / G. Bingham Powell

Parties in Parliament: The Blurring of Opposition / Rudy B. Andeweg

Parliamentary Party Groups: To Whom is the Midfield Accountable? / Knut Heidar

Parliamentary Voting / Simon Hug

Citizens' Confidence in European Parliaments: Institutions and Issues / Karin Dyrstad, Ola Listhaug

Structural Determinants of Party Choice: The Changing Impact of Socio-Structure Variables on Party Choice in Comparative Perspective / Oddbjørn Knutsen

Political Parties and Constitutional Change / Shane Martin, Bjørn Erik Rasch

The Change of Party-State Relations in Advanced Democracies: A Party-Specific Development or Broader Societal Trend? / Nicole Bolleyer

Party Development in the Old World: And in the New / Lars Svåsand.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1461465877

9781461465874

OCLC:

822974553