Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of
political science that deals with contemporary government and
politics. The General Editors are Professor Alfio Mastropaolo,
University of Turin and Kenneth Newton, University of Southampton and
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin . The series is published in association
with the European Consortium for Political Research. The sister volume
to Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book
offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the
world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and
data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational
development and functional performance of political parties in Latin
America and postcommunist Eastern Europe. It demonstrates the
generational differences between parties in the old and new
democracies, and reveals contrasts among the latter. Parties are shown
to be at their most feeble in those recently transitional democracies
characterized by personalistic, candidate-centred forms of politics,
but in other new democracies - especially those with parliamentary
systems - parties are more stable and institutionalized, enabling them
to facilitate a meaningful degree of popular choice and control.
Wherever party politics is weakly institutionalized, political
inequality tends to be greater, commitment to pluralism less certain,
clientelism and corruption more pronounced, and populist demagoguery a
greater temptation. Without party, democracy's hold is more tenuous.
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ISBN
9780191537264
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
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OUP Oxford
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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