Democratic theory considers it fundamental for parties in government to be both responsive to their electorate and responsible to internal and international constraints. But recently these two roles have become more and more incompatible with Mair's growing divide in European party systems between parties which claim to represent, but don't deliver, and those which deliver, but are no longer seen to represent truer than ever.
The volume contains a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the behaviour of the opposition parties in eleven European democracies across Western and East...
Democratic theory considers it fundamental for parties in government to be both responsive to their electorate and responsible to internal and inte...
The question of how political parties are, and ought to be, regulated has assumed an increased importance in recent years, both within the scholarly community and among policy-makers and politicians as the state assumes an increasingly active role in the management of, and control over, their behaviour and organisation
This book concentrates on the regulation of political parties in the EU post-communist democracies, and on Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania, in particular. In analyzing the various...
The question of how political parties are, and ought to be, regulated has assumed an increased importance in recent years, both within the scholarl...
We are likely to learn much more by exploring the systems of understudied nations rather than by replicating studies about cases we already know much about
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of political parties and party systems in each of the democratic European microstates, which tend to be relatively more democratic and stable than other party systems. Looking at party system development and institutionalization, the book examines what has caused the stability of microstates' party systems in the first place and to extract important lessons of how...
We are likely to learn much more by exploring the systems of understudied nations rather than by replicating studies about cases we already know mu...
