Party Politics in a New Democracy
Title | Party Politics in a New Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Mel Farrell |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2017-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319635859 |
This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland. Interwar Ireland’s politics have been caricatured as an anomaly, with the distinction between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael bewildering political commentators and scholars alike. It is common for Ireland’s politics to be presented as an anomaly that compare unfavourably to the neat left/right cleavages evident in Britain and much of Europe. By offering an historical re-appraisal of the Irish Free State’s politics, anchored in the wider context of inter-war Europe, Mel Farrell argues that the Irish party system is not unique in having two dominant parties capable of adapting to changing circumstances, and suggests that this has been a key strength of Irish democracy. Moreover, the book challenges the tired cliché of ‘Civil War Politics’ by demonstrating that events subsequent to Civil War led the Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil cleavage dominant in the twentieth-century.
Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe
Title | Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | P. Nikiforos Diamandouros |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2001-06-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780801865176 |
In the acclaimed Politics of Democratic Consolidation, Nikiforos Diamandouros, Richard Gunther, and their co-authors showed how democratization unfolded in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, culminating in consolidated democratic regimes. This volume continues that analysis, posing the basic question: What kind of democratic politics emerged in those countries? It presents systematic analyses of the basic institutions of government and of the dynamics of electoral competition in the four countries (set in comparative context alongside several other democracies), as well as detailed studies of the evolution of the major parties, their electorates, their ideologies, and their performances in government over the past twenty years. The authors reach two major conclusions. First, the new democracies' salient features are moderation, centripetalism, and the democratization of erstwhile antisystem parties on the Right and Left. Second, no single "Southern European model" has emerged; the systems differ from one another about as much as do the other established democracies of Europe. Contributors: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, University of Athens • Richard Gunther, Ohio State University • Thomas C. Bruneau, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey • Arend Lijphart, University of California at San Diego • Leonardo Morlino, University of Florence • Risa A. Brooks, Stanford University • José R. Montero, Autonomous University of Madrid • Giacomo Sani, University of Pavia • Paolo Segatti, University of Trieste • Gianfranco Pasquino, University of Bologna • Takis S. Pappas, College Year, Athens • Hans-Jrgen Puhle, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main • Anna Bosco, University of Trieste
Party Politics in New Democracies
Title | Party Politics in New Democracies PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Webb |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2007-09-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191537268 |
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. The General Editors are Professor Alfio Mastropaolo, University of Turin and Kenneth Newton, University of Southampton and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin . The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. The sister volume to Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational development and functional performance of political parties in Latin America and postcommunist Eastern Europe. It demonstrates the generational differences between parties in the old and new democracies, and reveals contrasts among the latter. Parties are shown to be at their most feeble in those recently transitional democracies characterized by personalistic, candidate-centred forms of politics, but in other new democracies - especially those with parliamentary systems - parties are more stable and institutionalized, enabling them to facilitate a meaningful degree of popular choice and control. Wherever party politics is weakly institutionalized, political inequality tends to be greater, commitment to pluralism less certain, clientelism and corruption more pronounced, and populist demagoguery a greater temptation. Without party, democracy's hold is more tenuous.
Party Mandates and Democracy
Title | Party Mandates and Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Elin Naurin |
Publisher | New Comparative Politics |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2019-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472131214 |
Contrary to public opinion, election promises are often fulfilled
Democracy Within Parties
Title | Democracy Within Parties PDF eBook |
Author | Reuven Y. Hazan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2010-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199572542 |
This text presents a new approach to understanding political parties. It sheds light on the inner dynamics of party politics and offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the most important processes any party undertakes, its process of candidate selection.
Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies
Title | Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Burnell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317985982 |
This book offers a critical and comparative examination of international support to political parties and party systems in emerging and prospective new democracies in several world regions. It combines the insights of a strong international grouping of leading academics and pioneering doctoral studies, and draws on extensive new field work inquiries. The wide-ranging coverage pools evidence from countries in Europe and Eurasia, Africa, East Asia and Central America. The book shows how far international support still has to go if it is to achieve its aims of helping party politics make a constructive contribution to furthering democracy. It advances our understanding both of the role the political parties are playing in the different polities and the sometimes negative impact of democracy promotion actors from outside. By contributing original theoretical perspectives and empirical findings, the book points the way forward to agendas for future research and new courses of action. It will be of interest to academics and the policy-making and practitioner communities alike. This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage
Title | Political Parties and Democratic Linkage PDF eBook |
Author | Russell J. Dalton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-09-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199599351 |
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage examines how political parties ensure the functioning of the democratic process in contemporary societies. Based on unprecedented cross-national data, the authors find that the process of party government is still alive and well in most contemporary democracies.