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Challenges to Political Parties - The Case of Norway (Hardcover, New)
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Are political parties still the most important political
organizations in politics? Or are they, as some charge, powerless
and intellectually bankrupt? Although political parties have been
the main vehicles of mass politics during the twentieth century,
their role in the twenty-first is not at all clear.
"Challenges to Political Parties: The Case of Norway" addresses
these issues by examining the role of parties in Norwegian politics
over the last twenty years. Because Norway has been a stable
country with relatively few of the tensions present in other
democracies, it is easier to see in this environment how parties
are adapting to the many constraints of the modern world. The
framework developed in this collection by a number of leading
Norwegian and international social scientists sheds light on the
strength of the party system worldwide.
Norway, indeed, exhibits the same stability observed elsewhere in
the world. Voters are increasingly eschewing strong party
identification and show-ing fickleness through vote-switching.
There has been a dramatic decline in political trust among the
electorate, and contempt for politicians has become a prominent
topic for the media. Yet the story also reveals the adaptability of
the party system. Like entrepreneurs, parties are either adapting
to meet voters' needs or new, more responsive parties are emerging
to compete against entrenched, older organizations. The party
system may be changing, the contributors to this volume argue, but
party government is likely to be the central form of democratic
governments for some time to come.
Kaare Strom is Associate Professor of Political Science, University
of California, San Diego. Lars Svasandis Professor of Comparative
Politics, University of Bergen.
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