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Parties without partisans :

0199253099

9780199253098

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Parties without partisans :

[Book]

political change in advanced industrial democracies /

Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg.

Oxford :

Oxford University Press,

2002.

1 online resource (328 pages)

Comparative Politics Ser.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unthinkable democracy : political change in advanced industrial democracies / Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg -- The decline of party identifications / Russell J. Dalton -- The consequences of partisan dealignment / Russell J. Dalton [and others] -- The decline of party mobilization / Martin P. Wattenberg -- Parties without members? Party organization in a changing electoral environment / Susan E. Scarrow -- Political parties as campaign organizations / David M. Farrell and Paul Webb -- From social integration to electoral contestation : the changing distribution of power within political parties / Susan E. Scarrow [and others] -- Parties in legislature : two competing explanations / Shaun Bowler -- Parties at the core of government / Kaare Strøm -- From platform declarations to policy outcomes : changing party profiles and partisan influence over policy / Miki L. Caul and Mark M. Gray -- On the primacy of party in government : why legislative parties can survive party decline in the electorate / Michael F. Thies -- Partisan change and the democratic process / Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg.

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If democracy without political parties is unthinkable, what would happen if the role of political parties if the democratic process is weakened? The ongoing debate about the vitality of political parties is also a debate about the vitality of representative democracy. Leading scholars in the field of party research assess the evidence for partisan decline or adaptation for the OECD nations in this book. It documents the broadscale erosion of the public's partisan identities in virtuallyall advanced industrial democracies. Partisan dealignment is diminishing involvement in electoral politics, and for those who participate it leads to more volatility in their voting choices, an openness to new political appeals, and less predictablity in their party preferences. Political parties have adapted to partisan dealignment by strengthening their internal organizational structures and partially isolating themselves from the ebbs and flows of electoral politics. Centralized, professionalized parties with short time horizons have replaced the ideologically-driven mass parties of the past. This study also examines the role of parties within government, and finds that parties have retained their traditional roles in structuring legislative action and the function of government-further evidence that party organizations are insulating themselves from the changes transforming democratic publics. Parties without Partisans is the most comprehensive cross-national study of partiesin advanced industrial democracies in all of their forms -- in electoral politics, as organizations, and in government. Its findings chart both how representative democracy has been transformed in the later half of the 20th Century, as well as what the new style of democratic politics is likely to look like in the 21st Century.

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Comparative government.

Democracy.

Political parties.

Representative government and representation.

Comparative government.

Democracy.

Political parties.

Representative government and representation.

Dalton, Russell J.

Wattenberg, Martin P.,1956-

Oxford University Press.

20201207151524.0

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