Political Parties and Electoral Change

出版者:SAGE Publications Ltd

作者:Mair, Peter (EDT)/ Muller, Wolfgang C. (EDT)/ Plasser, Fritz (EDT)

页数:296

出版时间:2004-5-19

价格:GBP 39.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780761947196

具体描述

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 dealignment. Each chapter employs a common format to present and compare the changing strategies of established parties and party systems in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland. The result is an invaluable portrait of the changing electoral environment and how parties are interacting with each another and voters today. Political Parties and Electoral Change is essential reading for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary electoral politics and of the challenges facing west European party systems. Peter Mair is Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University. Wolfgang C.M ller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mannheim and previously taught at the University of Vienna. Fritz Plasser is Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck.

作者简介

Peter Mair (1951-2011) was one of the leading political scientists of his generation. He studied at University College Dublin and the University of Leiden, and worked at universities in Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands and Italy, finally becoming Professor of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, Florence. His books include Party System Change and, with Stefano Bartolini, Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability.

Fritz Plasser is professor of political science and dean of the faculty of political science and sociology at the University of Innsbruck.

目录信息

Introduction - Peter Mair, Wolfgang C M[um]uller and Fritz Plasser
Electoral Challenges and Party Responses
Party Responses to the Changing Electoral Market in Britain - Paul Webb
Ephemeral Victories? France's Governing Parties, the Ecologists, and the Far Right - Andrew Knapp
Embracing Dealignment, Combating Realignment - Susan E Scarrow
German Parties Respond
Party Responses to Electoral Dealignment in Italy - Luciano Bardi
Party Responses to the Erosion of Voter Loyalties in Austria - Wolfgang C M[um]uller, Fritz Plasser and Peter A Ulram
Weakness as an Advantage and Strength as a Handicap
Political Parties and Their Reactions to the Erosion of Voter Loyalty in Belgium - Kris Deschouwer
Caught in a Trap
Electoral Fortunes and Responses of the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party in Denmark - Lars Bille and Karina Pedersen
Ups and Downs
Political Parties in Electoral Markets in Postwar Ireland - Peter Mair and Michael Marsh
Conclusion - Peter Mair, Wolfgang C M[um]uller and Fritz Plasser
Political Parties in Changing Electoral Markets
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