Party Transformations in European Democracies

Informationen zum Autor André Krouwel is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Klappentext Examines existing models of political party transformation and tests them using data from fifteen European countries. Political parties regularly change and adapt in response to ever-changing circumstances. Until now these changes have frequently prompted both scholars and the media to suggest a whole new type of political party, and over time the number of models and types has proliferated to the point of confusion, contradiction, and a loss of explanatory power. In this sophisticated yet accessible study, Andr Krouwel rejects this mlange of models as inadequate. He utilizes a wide range of data sources to analyze the ideological, organizational, and electoral change undergone by more than one hundred European parties in fifteen different countries, from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, between 1945 and 2010. The result is one of the most comprehensive empirically grounded studies of the genesis, development, and transformation of political parties in advanced democratic states written to date.

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André Krouwel is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Andrae Krouwel, Andre Krouwel, André Krouwel
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9781438444819
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-4481-9
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European