Political parties in advanced industrial democracies /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Paul Webb, David M. Farrell, and Ian Holliday.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oxford :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xvi, 471 pages) :
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illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Comparative politics
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: political parties in advanced industrial democracies / Paul Webb -- Political parties in Britain: secular decline or adaptive resilience? / Paul Webb -- Italian parties: change and functionality / Luciano Bardi -- Party decline in the parties state? The changing environment of German politics / Susan E. Scarrow -- France: never a golden age / Andrew Knapp -- The colour purple: the end of predictable politics in the low countries -- Kris Deschouwer -- The Scandinavian party model at the crossroads / Jan Sundberg -- Party politics in Ireland: regularizing a volatile system / R.J. Murphy and David M. Farrell -- Spain: building a parties state in a new democracy / Ian Holliday -- Parties at the European level / Simon Hix -- Still functional after all these years: parties in the United States, 1960-2000 / John C. Green -- Canada's nineteenth-century cadre parties at the millennium / R. Kenneth Carty -- Political parties in Australia: Party stability in a utilitarian society / Ian McAllister -- Parties and society in New Zealand / Jack Vowles -- Conclusion: political parties and democratic control in advanced industrial societies / Paul Webb.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A survey of modern political parties and their role in contemporary democracy. It argues that parties have survived popular cynicism by remodelling themselves to the needs of an era in which patterns of linkage and communication with social groups have been transformed.
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Title
Political parties in advanced industrial democracies.
International Standard Book Number
9780199240555
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Political parties, Cross-cultural studies.
Political parties.
Partis politiques-- Études transculturelles.
Partis politiques.
Democracia.
Democratie.
Partidos políticos (processo político)
Política e governo.
Political parties.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Parties.