Parties and Democracy
Subtitle: Party Structure and Party Performance in Old and New Democracies (Political Studies Special Issues)
Contributors: Rick Hofferbert (Editor); Richard Hofferbert (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780631209300
First sentence: By the late 1990s it has become commonplace to assert that the decade has been historically unprecedented in the number of countries throwing off authoritarian regimes - more or less peacefully - and beginning the process of building democracies.