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Zusatztext 'This collection of studies is a welcome addition to party literature. The editors have brought together a range of experts who provide sophisticated yet accessible accounts of different spheres of party roles - their electoral connections! parties as political organizations! and their part in Government. Parties without Partisans sets a marker against which future studies are likely to be judged.' Klappentext This book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the roles that political parties perform in twenty OECD nations. It finds that parties continue to exercise their traditional roles in organizing elections and structuring the government process! but that they are losing the allegiance of a public that is increasingly non-partisan and sceptical about political parties as institutions. These findings lead to a discussion about the changing nature of representative democracy as these nations enter the 21st Century. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the roles that political parties perform in 20 OECD nations. The text finds that parties continue to exercise their traditional roles in organizing elections and structuring the government process, but they are losing the allegiance of a public that is increasingly non-partisan and sceptical about political parties as institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Unthinkable Deomocracy: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies Part I. Parties in the Electorate The Decline of Party Identification The Consequences of Partisan Dealignment The Decline of Party Mobilization Part II. Parties as Political Organizations Parties without Members? Party Organizations in a Changing Electoral Environment Political Parties as Campaign Organizations From Social Integration to Electoral Contestination: The Changing Distribution of Power within Political Parties Part III. Parties in Government Parties in Legislature: Two Competing Explanations Parties at the Core of Government From Platform Declarations to Policy Outcomes: Changing Party Profiles and Partisan Influence over Policy On the Primacy of Party in Government: Why Legislative Parties Can Survive Party Decline in the Electorate Conclusion Partisan Change and the Democratic Process ...
