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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed
to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys
of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete
subject areas. This insightful Advanced Introduction provides an
overview of the organisation, regulation and structure of political
parties today. Richard S. Katz discusses the essential role that
political parties play in modern democracies, with politics taking
place within and among parties. Analysing the significant diversity
found between parties, Katz illustrates the profound impact that
the legal definition and organisation of parties can have on a
democratic system. Key Features: Reviews how and why parties have
been regulated Explores the scholarly and legal definitions of
parties Focuses on government formation and party government
Analyses the historical development of forms of parties and party
coalitions Examines intra-party politics alongside inter-party
cooperation and competition This Advanced Introduction will be
essential reading for students and scholars in political science,
public policy, leadership, and international politics. It will also
be a useful guide for practitioners seeking to better understand
the position of parties in a democratic system.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed
to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys
of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete
subject areas. This insightful Advanced Introduction provides an
overview of the organisation, regulation and structure of political
parties today. Richard S. Katz discusses the essential role that
political parties play in modern democracies, with politics taking
place within and among parties. Analysing the significant diversity
found between parties, Katz illustrates the profound impact that
the legal definition and organisation of parties can have on a
democratic system. Key Features: Reviews how and why parties have
been regulated Explores the scholarly and legal definitions of
parties Focuses on government formation and party government
Analyses the historical development of forms of parties and party
coalitions Examines intra-party politics alongside inter-party
cooperation and competition This Advanced Introduction will be
essential reading for students and scholars in political science,
public policy, leadership, and international politics. It will also
be a useful guide for practitioners seeking to better understand
the position of parties in a democratic system.
Following the major upheavals of 1993, the Italian political system
suffered intense aftershocks tied to the renewal of the political
class in 1994. There were shattering changes in the party system?in
particular the birth of Berlusconi's Forza Italia?and the first
majoritarian parliament was established. In this latest edition of
Italian Politics
Following the major upheavals of 1993, the Italian political system
suffered intense aftershocks tied to the renewal of the political
class in 1994. There were shattering changes in the party
system--in particular the birth of Berlusconi's Forza Italia--and
the first majoritarian parliament was established. In this latest
edition of "Italian Politics" all the crucial issues that defined
Italian political and social life during 1994 are discussed and
interpreted by renowned scholars from Italy, the United States, and
Britain, who provide an indispensable guide for understanding
Italy's transformation.
The implications of the personalization of politics are necessarily
widespread and can be found across many different aspects of
contemporary democracies. Personalization should influence the way
campaigns are waged, how voters determine their preferences, how
officials (e.g., MPs) and institutions (e.g., legislatures and
governments) function, and the place and operations of political
parties in democratic life. However, in an effort to quantify the
precise degree of personalization over time and to uncover the
various causes of personalization, the existing literature has paid
little attention to many of the important questions regarding the
consequences of personalization. While the chapters throughout this
volume certainly document the extent of personalization, they also
seek to address some fundamental questions about the nature of
personalization, how it is manifested, and its consequences for
political parties, governance, representation, and the state of
democracy more generally. Indeed, one of the primary objectives of
this volume is to speak to a very broad audience about the
implications of personalization. Those interested in election
campaigns, voting, gender, governance, legislative behaviour, and
political parties will all find something of value in the
contributions that follow.
Political parties and elections are the mainsprings of modern
democracy. In this classic volume, Richard S. Katz explores the
problem of how a given electoral system affects the role of
political parties and the way in which party members are elected.
He develops and tests a theory of the differences in the cohesion,
ideological behavior, and issue orientation of Western
parliamentary parties on the basis of the electoral systems under
which they compete. A standard in the field of political theory and
thought, "The Theory of Parties and the Electoral System"
contributes to a better understanding of parliamentary party
structures and demonstrates the wide utility of the rationalistic
approach for explaining behavior derived from the self-interest of
political actors.
Political parties have long been recognized as essential
institutions of democratic governance. Both the organization of
parties, and their relationships with citizens, the state, and each
other have evolved since the rise of liberal democracy in the 19th
and early 20th centuries. Going into the 21st century, it appears
that parties losing popular support, putting both parties, and
potentially democracy, in peril. This book traces the evolution of
parties from the model of the mass party, through the catch-all
party model, to argue that by the late 20th century the principal
governing parties and (and their allied smaller parties -
collectively the political 'mainstream') were effectively forming a
cartel, in which the form of competition might remain, and indeed
even appear to intensify, while its substance was increasingly
hollowed out. The spoils of office were increasingly shared rather
than restricted to the temporary winners; contentious policy
questions were kept off the political agenda, and competition
shifted from large questions of policy to minor questions of
managerial competence. To support this cartel, the internal
arrangements of parties changed to privilege the party in public
office over the party on the ground. The unintended consequence has
been to stimulate the rise of extra-cartel challengers to these
cozy arrangements in the form of anti-party-system parties and
populist oppositions on the left, but especially on the right.
Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and
students of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are
characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong
methodological rigour. The series is published in association with
the European Consortium for Political Research. For more
information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie
van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de
Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the
Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John
and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of
Houston.
The implications of the personalization of politics are necessarily
widespread and can be found across many different aspects of
contemporary democracies. Personalization should influence the way
campaigns are waged, how voters determine their preferences, how
officials (e.g., MPs) and institutions (e.g., legislatures and
governments) function, and the place and operations of political
parties in democratic life. However, in an effort to quantify the
precise degree of personalization over time and to uncover the
various causes of personalization, the existing literature has paid
little attention to many of the important questions regarding the
consequences of personalization. While the chapters throughout this
volume certainly document the extent of personalization, they also
seek to address some fundamental questions about the nature of
personalization, how it is manifested, and its consequences for
political parties, governance, representation, and the state of
democracy more generally. Indeed, one of the primary objectives of
this volume is to speak to a very broad audience about the
implications of personalization. Those interested in election
campaigns, voting, gender, governance, legislative behaviour, and
political parties will all find something of value in the
contributions that follow.
This book helps students to understand American politics by guiding
them through the different institutions of American government. It
covers the electoral and party systems, the separation of powers
between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of
government, and the division of powers between the federal
government and the states. It also explores the internal
organization of each institution. This book gives students a solid
understanding of the 'rules' of the American political game, the
'pitch' on which the game is played, and the basic characteristics
and orientations of the 'teams' that are playing the game. It
enables students to study contemporary American politics with
greater understanding, and to see the differences between the
government of the United States and the governments of other
democracies.
This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing
together the findings of an international team of leading scholars.
Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party
organizations, the contributors set out to explain how parties
organize, how they have changed and how they have adapted to the
changing political and organizational circumstances in which they
find themselves. The contributors are recognized authorities on the
party systems of their countries, and have all been involved in
gathering data on party membership, party finance and the internal
structure of power. They add to the analysis of these original data
an expert knowledge of the wider political patterns in their
countries, and thus provide insight into the development of parties
and party systems from the perspective of party organizations
themselves. How Parties Organize offers the most systematic and
comparable analysis of party organization in contemporary Europe
and the United States.
'This thoughtful and wide-ranging review of parties and party
research contains contributions from many of the foremost party
scholars and is a must for all library shelves' - Richard Luther,
Keele University 'The study of political parties has never been
livelier and this genuinely international Handbook - theoretically
rich, comparatively informed, and focused on important questions -
defines the field. This volume is both an indispensable summary of
what we know and the starting point for future research' - R K
Carty, University of British Columbia 'Political parties are
ubiquitous, but their forms and functions vary greatly from regime
to regime, from continent to continent, and from era to era. The
Handbook of Party Politics captures this variation and richness in
impressive ways. The editors have assembled an excellent team, and
the scope of the volume is vast and intriguing' - Kaare Strom,
University of California, San Diego Political parties are
indispensable to democracy and a central subject of research and
study in political science around the world. This major new
handbook is the first to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art
in contemporary party politics scholarship. The Handbook is
designed to: - provide an invaluable survey of the major theories
and approaches in this dynamic area of study and research - give
students and researchers a concise 'road map' to the core
literatures in all the sub-fields of party related theorizing and
research - identify the theories, approaches and topics that define
the current 'cutting edge' of the field. The Handbook is
comparative in overall approach but also addresses some topics to
be addressed in nationally or regionally specific ways. The
resulting collaboration has brought together the world's leading
party theorists to provide an unrivalled resource on the role of
parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional
design and democratic governance today.
This book addresses the relationship between four values of
democratic theory--popular sovereignty, liberalism, personal
development, and community--and the electoral institutions used to
implement them. After a chapter sketching the electoral
institutions of Athens, the Roman Republic, the medieval church,
and pre-reform Britain, the book examines what role elections are
expected to play in a variety of democratic theories. The major
theme of this section is that the four values are largely
incompatible; therefore, different choices must be made between
them. Part II addresses the empirical consequences of electoral
institutions by examining electoral systems worldwide with the
objective of finding the institutions most appropriate to each
model of democracy. This impressive study provides empirical
information on more electoral institutions in more countries than
has ever been available in one volume before.
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