Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-153) and index.
Why major parties collapse -- Major party collapse and conflict on two fronts -- Party structures and party dissolution -- The logic of party fusion -- How major parties form electoral coalitions with other parties.
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This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter.