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This book provides the first systematic book length study of political parties across Central Europe since 1989, and provides new tools and conceptual frameworks that can be used to explain party politics in other regions across the globe.
List of contents
- 1: Puzzles of Party Politics: How Central Europe Challenges What We Know About Continuity and Change
- 2: What's New?: How to Refine Our Assessments of Party Novelty
- 3: Maps and Measures: What New Measures Can Tell Us About Central European Party Systems
- 4: The Old and the New: How Parties Differ with Age and Time
- 5: The Living and the Dead: Why Some Parties Fail and Others Survive
- 6: Cycles and Subsystems: Why New Parties Give Way to Even Newer Parties
- 7: Slovenia is Everywhere?: How the New Party Challenge Has Extended Across the Globe
- 8: Neither Older nor Wiser? What Continual Party Change Means for the Quality of Democracy
About the author
Tim Haughton is Reader (Associate Professor) in European Politics at the University of Birmingham. He has a particular interest in electoral and party politics, electoral campaigning, the role of the past in the politics of the present, and the domestic politics of Central and Eastern Europe. He has published widely in a number of leading scholarly journals, written several articles for the Washington Post and was the co-editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review of the European Union from 2008-2016.
Kevin Deegan-Krause is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His research focuses on political parties and democracy in Europe with emphasis on Europe's newer democracies and its newer parties. He is the author of Elected Affinities: Democracy and Party Competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Stanford University Press 2006), several edited books and numerous articles, and from 2011 to 2017 was co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook.
Summary
This book provides the first systematic book length study of political parties across Central Europe since 1989, and provides new tools and conceptual frameworks that can be used to explain party politics in other regions across the globe.
Additional text
The New Party Challenge provides a deeply original insight into the birth and death of political parties. Deegan-Krause and Haughton use their comprehensive examination of party politics across Central Europe during the decades since the end of communism as a mould for understanding how agency, timing, and structure interact to shape the fate of political parties. This book is comparative politics at its finest and has the making of a classic.
