| Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations Contributor(s): Mair, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 019829235X ISBN-13: 9780198292357 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1997 Annotation: This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and "freeze" themselves into place. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 324.209 |
| LCCN: 97174372 |
| Lexile Measure: 1600 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.08" W x 8.74" (1.09 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and freeze themselves into place. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood. |