Plasser examines the changing practices of election campaigning worldwide. Based on data of an indepth survey of campaign managers and political consultants from 43 countries, he provides insights into the professional role definitions and strategic orientations determining the future of electioneering in media-centered democracies.
The first section gives a state-of-the-art overview of the international literature and modernization theories describing and analyzing the ongoing process of modernization and growing professionalization of electioneering around the world. The...
Plasser examines the changing practices of election campaigning worldwide. Based on data of an indepth survey of campaign managers and political co...
How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties?
What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate?
Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have become the hallmarks of modern European politics.
This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral...
How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties?
How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties?
What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate?
Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have become the hallmarks of modern European politics.
This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral...
How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties?
Compared to the late 1970s, when the Austrian voting behavior was characterized by extraordinary stability, low electoral volatility, and high turnout rates, the 1980s and 1990s stand for exceptional changes and ruptures elicited primarily by the rise of the right wing populist FPi (Freedom Party of Austria). This volume of collected papers investigates the permanent changes of Austrian voting behavior over the past forty years and analyzes causes and consequences for party competition and the electoral process in Austria during the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Some of...
Compared to the late 1970s, when the Austrian voting behavior was characterized by extraordinary stability, low electoral volatility, and high turn...
For more than a generation after World War II, many Austrians insisted that Austria was a victim of Nazi aggression in 1938 and therefore bore no responsibility for German war crimes. During the past twenty years, this myth has been revised to include a more complex view of the past-one with both Austrian perpetrators and victims. This volume richly illustrates this view. Gerhard Weinberg places the role of Austrians within the larger story of World War II. Oliver Rathkolb analyzes the postwar trajectory in the politics of memory of the Anschluss of 1938.
For more than a generation after World War II, many Austrians insisted that Austria was a victim of Nazi aggression in 1938 and therefore bore no resp...
Die amerikanischen Prasidentschaftswahlen 2000 waren durch eine aussergewohnliche Dramatik gekennzeichnet. Vor dem Hintergrund einer "Amerikanisierung" europaischer Wahlen werden das Wahlsystem, die Schlusselfaktoren des Wahlprozesses und das Wahlergebnis analysiert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Funktionen der Massenmedien in den USA als Musterbeispiel einer Teledemokratie. Das Buch bietet einen aktuellen Uberblick uber Trends und Innovationen im politischen Wettbewerb und deren Konsequenzen fur die Demokratie der USA
Die amerikanischen Prasidentschaftswahlen 2000 waren durch eine aussergewohnliche Dramatik gekennzeichnet. Vor dem Hintergrund einer "Amerikanisierung...
