Changing societies, changing party systems
By: Heather Stoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781107030497; 9781107675742
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Political parties; Political participation; Democracy
Description: "This book studies how society shapes democratic political competition, with a focus on the number of political parties"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Social heterogeneity and the number of parties: a theory; 3. Describing social heterogeneity: measures and testable hypotheses; 4. Social heterogeneity and party system fragmentation: empirical evidence across space and time; 5. Israel: new parties for new groups?; 6. Israel: testing hypotheses about sectarian party success; 7. The United States: new parties for new groups? testing hypotheses; 8. Conclusion: party system fragmentation and beyond.