Dynamics of Two-Party Politics - Party Structures and the Management of Competition

Zusatztext [This book] packs a considerable theoretical and practical punch. Informationen zum Autor Alan Ware has spent nearly four decades studying how political parties operate; he is currently a Professor and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and taught previously at the University of Warwick Klappentext This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter. Zusammenfassung This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter.

Summary

This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Ware, Alan (Professor and Tutor in Politics Ware, Alan J. Ware
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780199564439
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956443-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics (Hardcove; Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics (Hardcove
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education