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The Dynamics of Two-Party Politics - Party Structures and the Management of Competition (Hardcover)
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The Dynamics of Two-Party Politics - Party Structures and the Management of Competition (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in
two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behavior of the
parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed
logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both
structure and agency can matter. It focuses on three major aspects
of change in two-party systems: (i) why occasionally major parties
(such as the British Liberals) collapse; (ii) why collapsed parties
sometimes survive as minor parties, and sometimes do not; and (iii)
what determines why, and how, major parties will ally themselves
with minor parties in order to maximize their chances of winning.
With respect to the first aspect it is argued that major parties
are advantaged by two factors: the resources they have accumulated
already, and their occupying role similar to that called by Thomas
Schelling a "focal arbiter." Consequently, party collapse is rare.
When it has occurred in nation states it is the result of a major
party having to fight opposition on "two separate fronts." The
survival of a collapsed party depends largely on its internal
structure; when a party has linked closely the ambitions of
politicians at different levels of office, party elimination is
more likely. The main arena in which agency is significant--that
is, when leadership is possible, including the politician acting as
heresthetician - is in the re-building of coalitions. This is
necessary for maximizing the chances of a party winning, but, for
various reasons, coalitions between major and minor parties are
usually difficult to construct.
Comparative Politics is a series for scholars and students of
political science that deals with contemporary issues in
comparative government and politics. The General Editor is David M.
Farrell, Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Head of School
of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. The series is
published in association with the European Consortium for Political
Research.
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