Political parties and democracy
By: edited by Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther.
Contributors: Diamond, Larry Jay.; Gunther, Richard.
Series: Journal of democracy book
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Political parties.; Democracy.; Political science.; Partis politiques.; Démocratie.; Institutions politiques.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Types and functions of parties / Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond; title: The rise of parties in western democracies / Hans Daalder; title: The Americanization of the European left / Seymour Marin Lipset; title: Parties are not what they once were / Philippe C. Schmitter; title: The party effects of electoral systems / Giovanni Satori; title: The three phrases of Italian parties / Leonardo Morlino; title: Japan's "1955 system" and beyond / Bradley Richardson; title: Political Darwinism in Latin America's lost decade / Michael Coppedge; title: Toward moderate pluralism: political parties in India / E. Sridharan and Ashutosh Varshney; title: The institutional decline of parties in Turkey / Ergun Özbudun; title: The legacy of one-party hegemony in Taiwan / Yun-han Chu; title: Divergent paths of postcommunist democracies / Herbert Kitschelt; title: Challenges to contemporary political parties / Stefano Bartolini and Peter Mair.