Synopses & Reviews
Drawing on the expertise of an impressive team of internationally known specialists, the book engages systematically with the evidence to show that, while a degree of popular cynicism towards them is often chronic, though rarely acute, parties have adapted and survived as organizations, remodelling themselves to the needs of an era in which patterns of linkage and communication with social groups have been transformed.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies,
Paul Webb2. Political Parties in Britain: Secular Decline or Adaptive Resilience?, Paul Webb
3. Italian Parties, Change and Functionality Luciano Bardi
4. Party Decline in the Parties State? The Changing Environment of German Politics, Susan E. Scarrow
5. France: Never a Golden Age, Andrew Knapp
6. The Colour Purple: The End of Predictable Politics in the Low Countries, Kris Deschouwer
7. The Scandinavian Party Model at the Crossroads, Jan Sundberg
8. Party Politics in Ireland: Regularizing a Volatile System, R. J. Murphy and David M. Farrell
9. Spain: Building a Parties State in a New Democracy, Ian Holliday
10. Parties at the European Level, Simon Hix
11. Still Functional After All These Years: Parties in America, 1960-2000, John C. Green
12. Canada's 19th Century Cadre Parties at the Millennium, R. Kenneth Carty
13. Political Parties in Australia: Party Stability in a Utilitarian Society, Ian McAllister
14. Parties and Society in New Zealand, Jack Vowles
15. Conclusion: Political Parties and Democratic Control in Advanced Industrial Societies, Paul Webb