Political parties and electoral change : party responses to electoral markets / edited by Peter Mair, Wolfgang C. Mu?ller and Fritz Plasser.

This volume provides a comparative overview and account of how the parties in Western Europe have perceived contemporary challenges of electoral alignment and how they have responded - whether organizationally, programmatically, or institutionally.

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Bibliographic Details
Involved Persons Mair, Peter, Mu?ller, Wolfgang C., 1957-, Plasser, Fritz, 1948-
Place, Publisher, Year London : SAGE , 2004
Pages1 online resource (ix, 280 p.)
ISBN1-280-36892-6
9786610368921
0-7619-4718-3
1-4129-3282-3
LanguageEnglish
Additional InformationCover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 - Introduction: Electoral Challenges and Party Responses; Chapter 2 - Party Responses to the Changing Electoral Market in Britain; Chapter 3 - Ephemeral Victories? France's Governing Parties, the Ecologists, and the Far Right; Chapter 4 - Embracing Dealignment, Combating Realigment: German Parties Respond; Chapter 5 - Party Responses to Electoral Dealignment in Italy; Chapter 6 - Party Responses to the Erosion of Voter Loyalties in Austria: Weakness as an Advantage and Strength as a Handicap
Chapter 7 - Political Parties and Their Reactions to the Erosion of Voter Loyalty in Belgium: Caught in a Trap Chapter 8 - Electoral Fortunes and Responses of the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party in Denmark: Ups and Downs; Chapter 9 - Political Parties in Electoral Markets in Postwar Ireland; Chapter 10 - Conclusion: Political Parties in Changing Electoral Markets; Index
Target AudienceSpecialized.
Additional InformationEnglish
Online AccessSage EBS 2024
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