Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies

List of contents

New Preface List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Introduction: Party Systems and How They Change 2. The French Party System in the 1980s 3. Italy: The Long Twilight of the DC Regime 4. Party System Transformations in the Federal Republic of Germany 5. The Austrian Party System: Continuity and Change 6. Stability and Change in the Belgian Party System 7. The Netherlands: Continuity and Change in a Fragmented Party System 8. Continuity and Change in the Scandinavian Party Systems 9. Continuity and Change in Britain 10. Ireland: From Predominance to Competition 11. The Canadian Paradox: Party System Stability in the Face of a Weakly Aligned Electorate 12. The United States: A Comparative View 13. Party System Change: Past, Present and Future Index

About the author

Steven B. Wolinetz

Summary

First published in 1988, Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies considers the extent and ways in which Western European and North American parties and party systems changed in the 1970s and 1980s after decades of relative stability.

Product details

• Assisted by: Steven B Wolinetz (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781032552972
• ISBN: 978-1-03-255297-2
• No. of pages: 345
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Political Parties, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Elections & referenda, Political parties and party platforms, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Elections and referenda / suffrage, Centrist democratic ideologies and movements