Political Parties and Electoral Change - Party Responses to Electoral Markets

Klappentext This book provides a comparative overview and account of how the parties in Western Europe have perceived contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment and how they have responded - whether organizationally, programmatically, or institutionally. Zusammenfassung This book provides a comparative overview and account of how the parties in Western Europe have perceived contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment and how they have responded - whether organizationally! programmatically! or institutionally. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Peter Mair, Wolfgang C M[um]uller and Fritz Plasser Electoral Challenges and Party Responses Party Responses to the Changing Electoral Market in Britain - Paul Webb Ephemeral Victories? France¿s Governing Parties, the Ecologists, and the Far Right - Andrew Knapp Embracing Dealignment, Combating Realignment - Susan E Scarrow German Parties Respond Party Responses to Electoral Dealignment in Italy - Luciano Bardi Party Responses to the Erosion of Voter Loyalties in Austria - Wolfgang C M[um]uller, Fritz Plasser and Peter A Ulram Weakness as an Advantage and Strength as a Handicap Political Parties and Their Reactions to the Erosion of Voter Loyalty in Belgium - Kris Deschouwer Caught in a Trap Electoral Fortunes and Responses of the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party in Denmark - Lars Bille and Karina Pedersen Ups and Downs Political Parties in Electoral Markets in Postwar Ireland - Peter Mair and Michael Marsh Conclusion - Peter Mair, Wolfgang C M[um]uller and Fritz Plasser Political Parties in Changing Electoral Markets

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• Authors: Peter Muller Mair
• Assisted by: Peter Mair (Editor), Mair Peter (Editor), Wolfgang Muller (Editor), Wolfgang C. Muller (Editor), Wolfgang Müller (Editor), Fritz Plasser (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2004
• EAN: 9780761947196
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-4719-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Western Europe, Elections & referenda, Political parties and party platforms, Western Continental Europe, Elections and referenda / suffrage, EU Politics;Political Parties