The new party challenge : changing cycles of party birth and death in central Europe and beyond
Tim Haughton
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | xi, 290 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "Why are there so many new parties? Why do so few of them survive? And why are they appearing and disappearing in so many more countries these days? Based on hundreds of interviews with party leaders, activists and voters and three decades of election results across Europe, The New Party Challenge introduces new tools for mapping and measuring party systems, and develops an integrated conceptual framework for analysing the dynamics of party politics, particularly the birth and death of parties. The book charts and explains the patterns of politics in Central Europe since 1989, but also shows how similar processes are at play on a far wider geographical canvas. New party breakthrough poses a threefold challenge: new parties need to persuade voters to support them; older parties need to respond and hold onto their voters; and all parties need to rise to the challenge faced given the changing context of politics, technological developments and the need to forge ties that bind between those who govern and those over whom they govern. The book highlights the importance of agency and choice in explaining the fate of parties, the salience of the clean versus corrupt dimension of politics, charts the flow of voters in the new party subsystem, and emphasizes the dimension of time and its role in shaping developments. The book concludes by reflecting on how the emergence of so many short-lived new parties, may affect the health and quality of democracy, and what could and should be done"--
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| ISBN | 9780198812920
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