Party literature has to a large extent been focused on the
explanation of the rise and success of new parties and their
effects on the party systems and on the older parties. This book
explores the dramatic status change of new parties, not as marginal
outsider parties but as governing or potentially governing parties
in their party systems.
This book analyses and compares parties that have previously
been in the opposition and that make the move towards government
for the first time. Some of these parties can be old parties that
have been locked into the opposition for a long time, some might be
new parties that move from their challenging position towards a
cooperative position and some might simply be new parties in new
party systems. The authors seek to answer how and why their role
has changed? And what are the consequences of this change? What
explains the evolution from principled opposition to loyal
opposition and eventually to participation in the executive? Which
characteristics of the parties can be held responsible? Which
characteristics of the parties' context (electoral system,
structure of the state) should be brought into the picture? And
what have been the effects of the status change on the party
organization, on the party ideology, on its electoral results?
This book will be of interest to scholars and students
interested in new parties (including Greens, radical right, and
regional parties), party organization, institutionalization and
change, political parties and party systems more generally and
comparative politics.
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