Party Politics in New Democracies by Paul Webb
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. Comparative Politics is a series for scholars and students of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editor is David M. Farrell, Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Head of School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.-
Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices
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Parties Without Partisans
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Minority Governments in Comparative Perspective
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Beyond Party Members
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From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?
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The Government Party
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How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited
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Political Parties in the New Europe
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Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern Europe
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Political Leaders and Democratic Elections
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The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions
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Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis
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Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe
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Inequality After the Transition
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Institutional Design and Party Government in Post-Communist Europe
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Localism and Centralism in Europe
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The Reshaping of West European Party Politics
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The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy
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Linking Citizens and Parties
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Losers' Consent
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Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe
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Mixed-Member Electoral Systems
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The Limits of Electoral Reform
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Party Reform
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Faces on the Ballot
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How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy
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The Dynamics of Two-Party Politics
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Democracy within Parties
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Intergovernmental Cooperation
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Democracy Transformed?
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Organizing Political Parties
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Parties and Their Members
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Learning Democracy
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The Strain of Representation
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If Money Talks, What Does it Say?
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Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics
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Political Data Handbook
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Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim
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Social Movements and Networks
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Environmental Protest in Western Europe
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Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies
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Voter Sophistication and Coalition Politics
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Learning to Govern Together in Representative Democracy
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Electoral System Incentives for Interparty and Intraparty Politics
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Putting Courts Under Pressure
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The Meanings of Voting for Citizens
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Political Parties
Paul Webb is Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex. He is author or editor of numerous publications, including The Modern British Party System (Sage Publications, 2000), Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Societies (Oxford University Press, 2002, coedited) and The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2005, coedited). He is currently an editor of the journals Party Politics and Representation.
Stephen White is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Glasgow, and a Senior Research Associate of its School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies. A former president of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies and chief editor of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, his recent books include Russia After Communism (coedited, Cass, 2002), Postcommunist Belarus (coedited, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and Developments in Russian Politics 6 (Palgrave and Duke, 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199289660 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199289662 |
| Title | Party Politics in New Democracies |
| Author | Paul Webb |
| Series | Comparative Politics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2009-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
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