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After the Mass Party - Continuity and Change in Political Parties and Representation in Norway (Hardcover)
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After the Mass Party - Continuity and Change in Political Parties and Representation in Norway (Hardcover)
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This book examines whether parties' ability to channel voter
interests into political institutions has in fact declined in the
wake of decline of party membership figures and the increase of
state finance of parties. It first looks at relevant empirical
studies to summarize what we already know. Second, it presents an
in-depth study of Norwegian voters and parties, based on a number
of voter, member and parliamentarian surveys conducted between 1990
and 2010. The existing literature is scarce and indecisive, whereas
the Norwegian parties still seem to represent voters fairly well,
despite the waning of mass parties. The party organizations-the
members, activists, and representatives-continue to channel voter
opinions into the Parliament. This book argues that the high and
persistent policy congruence between voters and parties revealed
might be related to party members and mid-level activists still
resemble voters socially and politically to a large degree. At the
same time, the party competition for votes is also still relatively
efficient, and there appears to be some interaction in terms of
what happens within party organizations and the stimuli offered by
competing parties. Hence, this book challenges the "decline
thesis". It argues that parties can continue to represent, even
"after the mass party". At the same time, it suggests that the
persistence of the formal representative structures and the closed
candidate selection processes that you still find in Norway and
elsewhere could make some parties somewhat more resistant to
representative decline than others.
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