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Political parties : old concepts and new challenges / edited by Richard Gunther, Jose Ramon-Montero, and Juan J. Linz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
- Comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Political Parties presents perspectives on political parties in democracies at the beginning of the 21st century. It critically re-examines the classic concepts and typologies that have guided research in this field over the past decades.
- Contents:
- ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Introduction: Reviewing and Reassessing Parties""; ""I. Reconceptualizing Parties and Party Competition""; ""2. Parties: Denied, Dismissed, or Redundant? A Critique""; ""3. Still the Age of Catch-allism? Volksparteien and Parteienstaat in Crisis and Re-equilibration""; ""4. Electoral and Party Competition: Analytical Dimensions and Empirical Problems""; ""II. Re-examining Party Organization and Party Models""
- ""5. The Ascendancy of the Party in Public Of.ce: Party Organizational Change in Twentieth-Century Democracies""""6. Beyond the Catch-All Party: Approaches to the Study of Parties and Party Organization in Contemporary Democracies""; ""7. Party Organization and Party Performance: The Case of the French Socialist Party""; ""8. A Crisis of Institutionalization: The Collapse of the UCD in Spain""; ""III. Revisiting Party Linkages and Attitudes Towards Parties""; ""9. Party Government, Patronage, and Party Decline in Western Europe""; ""10. Anti-Party Sentiments in Southern Europe""
- ""11. Parties in Contemporary Democracies: Problems and Paradoxes""""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-343) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-829669-X
- 1-282-05264-0
- 9786612052644
- 0-19-152991-5
- OCLC:
- 370802485
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