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Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Paul Webb, David Farrell, and Ian Holliday
488 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924056-2
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Paperback
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26 September 2002
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- An impressive team of internationally known specialists
- Comprehensive and authoritative
- Provides an definitive reference tool
How relevant and vital are political parties in contemporary democracies? Do they fulfill the functions that any stable and effective democracy might expect of them, or are they little more than moribund anachronisms, relics of a past age of political life, now superseded by other mechanisms of linkage between state and society? These are the central questions which this book aims to address through a rigorous comparative analysis of political parties operating in the world's advanced industrial democracies. Drawing on the expertise of an impressive team of internationally known specialists, the book engages systematically with the evidence to show that, while a degree of popular
cynicism towards them is often chronic, though rarely acute, parties have adapted and survived as organizations, remodelling themselves to the needs of an era in which patterns of linkage and communication with social groups have been transformed. This has enabled them to remain central to democratic systems, especially in respect of the political functions of governance, recruitment and, albeit more problematically, interest aggregation. On the other hand, the challenges they face in respect of interest articulation, communication and participation have pushed parties into more marginal roles within Western political systems. The implications of these findings for democracy depend on the observer's normative and theoretical perspectives. Those who understand democracy primarily in terms
of popular choice and control in public affairs will probably see parties as continuing to play a central role, while those who place greater store by the more demanding criteria of optimizing interests and instilling civic orientations among citizens are far more likely to be fundamentally critical.
Readership: Scholars and students of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, Electoral Politics, and Democracy
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Paul Webb, Professor of Politics, University of Sussex, David Farrell, Senior Jean Monnet Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Manchester, and Ian Holliday, Professor of Policy Studies and Head of the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. Contributors:
PLuciano Bardi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa
R. Kenneth Carty is Professor of Political Science in the University of British Columbia
Kris Deschouwer is Professor of Politics at the Free University of Brussels and at the Department of Comparative Politics
of the University of Bergen
David Farrell is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Manchester
John C. Green is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron
Simon Hix is Reader in European Union Politics and Policy in the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Ian Holliday is Professor of Policy Studies and Head of the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong
Andrew Knapp is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Reading
Ian McAllister is Professor of Politics and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the
Australian National University in Canberra
Ronan Murphy is a Research Student in Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin
Susan E. Scarrow is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston
Jan Sundberg is Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki
Jack Vowles is Associate Professor at the University of Waikato
Paul Webb is Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex
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1: Paul Webb: Introduction: Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies
2: Paul Webb: Political Parties in Britain: Secular Decline or Adaptive Resilience?
3: Change and Functionality Luciano Bardi: Italian Parties
4: Susan E. Scarrow: Party Decline in the Parties State? The Changing Environment of German Politics
5: Andrew Knapp: France: Never a Golden Age
6: Kris Deschouwer: The Colour Purple: The End of Predictable Politics in the Low Countries
7: Jan Sundberg: The Scandinavian Party Model at the Crossroads
8: R. J. Murphy and David M. Farrell: Party Politics in Ireland: Regularizing a Volatile System
9: Ian Holliday: Spain: Building a Parties State in a New Democracy
10: Simon Hix: Parties at the European Level
11: John C. Green: Still Functional After All These Years: Parties in America, 1960-2000
12: R. Kenneth Carty: Canada's 19th Century Cadre Parties at the Millennium
13: Ian McAllister: Political Parties in Australia: Party Stability in a Utilitarian Society
14: Jack Vowles: Parties and Society in New Zealand
15: Paul Webb: Conclusion: Political Parties and Democratic Control in Advanced Industrial Societies
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