Parties without partisans
Subtitle: political change in advanced industrial democracies
By: edited by Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg.
Contributors: Dalton, Russell J.; Wattenberg, Martin P., 1956-
Series: Comparative politics; Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Political parties; Representative government and representation; Comparative government
Description: This book provides a comprehensive cross-national study of parties in advanced industrial democracies in all their forms - in electoral politics, as organisations, and in government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unthinkable democracy : political change in advanced industrial democracies / Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg; title: The decline of party identifications / Russell J. Dalton; title: The consequences of partisan dealignment / Russell J. Dalton ... [et al.]; title: The decline of party mobilization / Martin P. Wattenberg; title: Parties without members? Party organization in a changing electoral environment / Susan E. Scarrow; title: Political parties as campaign organizations / David M. Farrell and Paul Webb; title: From social integration to electoral contestation : the changing distribution of power within political parties / Susan E. Scarrow ... [et al.]; title: Parties in legislature : two competing explanations / Shaun Bowler; title: Parties at the core of government / Kaare Strøm; title: From platform declarations to policy outcomes : changing party profiles and partisan influence over policy / Miki L. Caul and Mark M. Gray; title: On the primacy of party in government : why legislative parties can survive party decline in the electorate / Michael F. Thies; title: Partisan change and the democratic process / Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg.