political parties in western democracies

Political Parties in Western Democracies

📁 Political Parties in Western Democracies

✍ Leon D. Epstein 📂 Library 📅 1980 🏛 Transaction Publishers 🌐 English

Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European counterparts, are in fact old and durable political organizations, seriving well the needs of a pluralistic society. What chiefly distinguishes this work

Political Parties in Western Democracies

📁 Political Parties in Western Democracies

✍ Leon D. Epstein 📂 Library 📅 1980 🏛 Transaction Publishers 🌐 English

Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European counterparts, are in fact old and durable political organizations, seriving well the needs of a pluralistic society. What chiefly distinguishes this work

Political Parties and Democratic Linkage

📁 Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy

✍ Russell J. Dalton, David M. Farrell, Ian McAllister 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

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

Securing Democracy: Political Parties an

📁 Securing Democracy: Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe

✍ Geoffrey Pridham 📂 Library 📅 1990 🌐 English

Provides the first systematic comparative analysis of Southern Europe's development towards democratic consolidation, looking particularly at Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of politics, European Studies and Development Studies.

Democratic Dilemmas: Why democracies ban

📁 Democratic Dilemmas: Why democracies ban political parties

✍ Angela K Bourne 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

<p>This book examines how democratic communities resolve dilemmas posed by anti-system parties or, more specifically, the question of why democracies take the grave decision to ban political parties. On the one hand, party bans may ‘protect’ democracies, usually from groups deemed to undermine the d

Political Parties in New Democracies

📁 Political Parties in New Democracies

✍ Ingrid Van Biezen 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

Ingrid van Biezen provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of party formation and organizational development in recently established democracies. She focuses on four democracies in Southern and East-Central Europe and addresses political parties from a cross-regional perspective. Featuring a w