Do Parties Still Represent?: An Analysis of the Representativeness of Political Parties in Western Democracies

ISBN-13: 9780367730413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Knut Heidar; Bram Wauters

Opis

This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness.

Spis treści

1. Party Membership as Linkage [Knut Heidar and Bram Wauters]  2. Descriptive Representation in Local Party Associations and Its Implications for Representation in Parliament: findings from the Canadian Case [William Cross]  3. Not Exactly a Mirror Image: British Parties’ Members and Voters Compared [Tim Bale, Monica Poletti, and Paul Webb]  4. Do Australian Parties Represent? [Anika Gauja and Jordan McSwiney]  5. Germany: The Politicization of Party Membership [Klaus Detterbeck]  6. Belgium: Parties as Distorting Mirrors. Descriptive and Substantive Representativeness in Flemish Parties under Scrutiny [Robin Devroe, Benjamin de Vet, Nicolas Van de Voorde and Bram Wauters]  7. Something for Everyone? Political Parties, Party Members and Representation in the Netherlands [Josje den Ridder, Ruud Koole and Joop van Holsteyn]  8. Norwegian Parties at Work: Representative Capacities and Political Trust [Knut Heidar]  9. A Skewed Channel of Participation in Denmark – and an Even More Skewed Recruitment Pool [Karina Kosiara-Pedersen]  10. Representativeness of Parties: Old Problems, New Challenges [Knut Heidar and Bram Wauters]

O autorze

Knut Heidar is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Bram Wauters is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of Ghent University, Belgium.