1. Do parties respond? : challenges to political parties and their consequences / Thomas Poguntke -- 2. Speaking for whom? : from 'old' to 'New' Labour / James E. Cronin -- 3. From disaster to landslide : the case of the Britsh Labour Party / Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley -- 4. From people's movements to electoral machines? : interest aggregation and the social democratic parties of Scandinavia / Nicholas Aylott -- 5. From aggregation to cartel? : the Danish case / Karina Pedersen -- 6. How parties in government respond : distributive policy in post-Wall Berlin / Louise K. Davidson-Schmich -- 7. Reaggregating interests? : how the break-up of the Union for French Democracy has changed the response of the French moderate right / Nicolas Sauger -- 8. Radicals, technocrats and traditionalists : interest aggregation in two provincial social democratic parties in Canada / A. Brian Tanguay -- 9. Paying for party response : parties of the centre-right in post-war Italy / Jonathan Hopkin -- 10. Latecomers but 'early-adapters' : the adaptation and response of Spanish parties to social changes / Luis Ramiro and Laura Morales -- 11. Representative rule or the rule of representations : the case of Russian political parties / Susanna Pshizova -- 12. Five variations on a theme : interest aggregation by party today / Kay Lawson.
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"How Political Parties Respond focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation: do parties today perform that function? If so, how, and if not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate?" "Until now, such changes have been more widely studied in the United States than in other democracies; this book studies the question with reference to the following democracies: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Canada." "This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of politics, and party politics in particular; comparative politics and democratic theory."--Jacket.
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Title
How political parties respond.
International Standard Book Number
0415347971
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Political participation, Cross-cultural studies.
Political participation.
Political parties, Cross-cultural studies.
Political parties.
Politics, Practical, Cross-cultural studies.
Politics, Practical.
Political participation.
Political parties.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Parties.