Resources This book is available in Oxford Scholarship Online - view abstracts and keywords at book and chapter level.
Related Categories
|
|
|
Political Parties
Old Concepts and New Challenges
Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and Juan Linz
384 pages
|
numerous tables and figures
|
234x156mm
978-0-19-829669-0
|
Hardback
|
07 March 2002
|
|
This item is printed to order. Items which are printed to order are normally despatched and charged within 5-10 days.
|
|
|
- Contributions by several of the world's leading scholars
- Important contribution to the field of party politics
This book, with contributions from leading scholars in the field, presents a critical overview of much of the recent literature on political parties. It systematically assesses the capacity of existing concepts, typologies, and methodological approaches to deal with contemporary parties. It critically analyses the 'decline of parties' literature both from a conceptual perspective and - with regard to antiparty attitudes among citizens - on the basis of empirical analyses of survey data. It systematically re-examines the underpinnings of rational-choice analyses of electoral competition, as well as the misapplication of standard party models as the 'catch-all
party.' Several chapters reexamine existing models of parties and party typologies, particularly with regard to the capacity of commonly used concepts to capture the wide variation among parties that exist in old and new democracies today, and with regard to their ability to deal adequately with the new challenges that parties are facing in rapidly changing political, social and technological environments. In particular, two detailed case studies demonstrate how party models are significant not only as frameworks for scholarly research, but also insofar as they can affect party performance. Other chapters also examine in detail how corruption and party patronage have contributed to party decline, as well as the public attitudes towards parties in several countries. In the aggregate, the
various contributions to this volume reject the notion that a 'decline of party' has progressed to such an extent as to threaten the survival of parties as the crucial intermediary actors in modern democracies. The contributing authors argue, however, that parties are facing a new set of sometimes demanding challenges. Not only have parties differed significantly in their ability to successfully meet these challenges, but the core concepts, typologies, party chdels and methodological approaches that have guided research in this area over the past 40 years have met with only mixed success in adequately capturing these recent developments and serving as fruitful frameworks for analysis. This book is intended to remedy some of these
shortcomings.Readership: Scholars and Students of Comparative Politics, Political Parties, Party Organization, Electoral Behaviour, Public Opinion
|
|
|
Richard Gunther, Professor, Political Science, Ohio State University, José Ramón Montero, Professor, Political Science, Universita Autonoma de Madrid, and Juan Linz, Sterling Professor, Emeritus, of Political and Social Science, Yale University Contributors:
Stefano Bartolini is Professor of Comparative Political Institutions at the European University Institute, Florence.
Jean Blondel is current Visiting Professor at the University of Siena.
Hans Daalder was Professor of Political Science at Leiden University from 1963 to 1993.
Richard Gunther is a Professor of Political
Science at the Ohio State University.
Jonathan Hopkin is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham.
Richard S. Katz is Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Juan J. Linz is Emeritus Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University
Peter Mair is Professor of Political Science and Comparative Politics at the University of Leiden
José Ramón Montero is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at the Instituto Juan March, Madrid.
Hans-Jürgen Puhle is a Professor of Political Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Serenella Sferza
Mariano Torcal is an Associate
Professor in Political Science at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Steven B. Wolinetz is a Professor of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
|
|
|
"... the individual papers are well worth reading in their own right and most contain innovative research and interesting approaches to the study of political parties." - Political Studies Review
|
|
|
José Ramón Montero and Richard Gunther: Introduction
Part I. Reconceptualizing parties and party competition
Hans Daalder: Parties: denied, dismissed, or redundant
Hans-Jürgen Puhle: Still the age of catch-allism? Volksparteien and Parteienstaat in crisis and reequilibration
Stefano Bartolini: Electoral and party competition: analytical dimensions and empirical problems
Part II. Reexaming party organization and party models
Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair: The ascendancy of the party in public office: party organizational change in 20th-century democracies
Steven B. Wolinetz: Beyond the catch-all party: approaches to the study of parties and party organization in contemporary democracies
Serenella Sferza: Party organization and party performance: the case of the French Socialist party
Richard Gunther and Jonathan Hopkin: A crisis of institutionalisation: the collapse of the UCD in Spain
Part III. Revisiting Party linkages and attitudes toward parties
Mariano Torcal, Richard Gunther, and José Ramón Montero: Antiparty sentiments in Southern Europe
Juan J. Linz: Parties in contemporary democracies: problems and paradoxes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
|
|
