Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions.<em> Political Parties and Democratic Linkage </em>assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
β Scribed by Judith Bara; Albert Weale
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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