When Parties Prosper : : The Uses of Electoral Success / / ed. by Peter H. Merkl, Kay Lawson.
Have parties, and party systems, come back to life in the twenty-first century? Are they capable of playing their roles in ways that will foster rather than betray the public interest? These are among the questions explored in When Parties Prosper, a richly comparative, up-to-date, and accessible st...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Political Parties in the Twenty-First Century
- PART 1 Parties on the Left
- 2 Britain’s New Labour Party: Prospering in an Antiparty Climate
- 3 Sweden: Still a Stable Party System?
- 4 European Social Democracy: Failing Successfully
- 5 Poland’s Democratic Left Alliance: Beyond Postcommunist Succession
- 6 The Lithuanian Social Democrats: A Prosperous Postcommunist Party
- 7 The Uruguayan Party System: Transition Within Transition
- PART 2 Parties on the Right
- 8 Germany’s Christian Democrats: Survivors in a Secular Society
- 9 Japan: Why Parties Fail, Yet Survive
- 10 Russia’s Political Parties: Deep in the Shadow of the President
- 11 Mexico: Helping the Opposition Prosper
- 12 Israel’s Shas: Party Prosperity and Dubious Democracy
- 13 Chile: From Individual Politics to Party Militancy
- PART 3 Comparing Opposing Parties
- 14 Italy: A Tale of Two Parties
- 15 France: Antisystem Parties vs. Government Parties
- 16 The US Two-Party System: Using Power to Prosper
- PART 4 Conclusions
- 17 Becoming the Party of Government
- 18 When Parties Dedemocratize
- Acronyms
- References
- The Contributors
- Index
- About the Book