Political Parties in the New Europe: Political and Analytical Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780199283989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 416 str.

Kurt Richard Luther

Opis

The scope and intensity of the challenges currently faced by western European political parties is exceptionally large, threatening the viability of the manner in which they have traditionally operated and causing them to seek new behaviours and strategies. This volume brings together some of the foremost scholars of European party politics, whose evaluation of political parties in "the new Europe" is organised under four broad headings: Parties as Corporate Actors; Parties and Society; Parties and the State and Parties Beyond the Nation State. Each contributor not only provides a concise, critical review of the theoretical and methodological "state of the art" in respect of a specific aspect, but also reviews the latest empirical findings in that area.

Recenzje

... this is a worthy book, both for the wealth of empirical material and as a contribution to further theorizing on the various dimensions of political parties... One strength of this volume is that it is more coherent than many of the recently published competitor volumes on political parties, and its theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses are more encompassing and carried out more systematically. It is furthermore marked by the consistently high quality of the contributions.