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Political Parties presents perspectives on political parties in democracies at the beginning of the 21st century. It critically re-examines the classic concepts and typologies that have guided research in this field over the past decades.
Introduction : reviewing and reassessing parties / José Ramón Montero, Richard Gunther -- Parties : denied, dismissed, or redundant? A critique / Hans Daalder -- Still the age of catch-allism? Volksparteien and Parteienstaat in crisis and re-equilibration / Hans-Jürgen Puhle -- Electoral and party competition : analytical dimensions and empirical problems / Stefano Bartolini -- Ascendancy of the party in public office : party organizational change in twentieth-century democracies / Richard S. Katz, Peter Mair -- Beyond the catch-all party : approaches to the study of parties and party organization in contemporary democracies / Steven B. Wolinetz -- Party organization and party performance : the case of the French Socialist Party / Serenella Sferza -- Crisis of institutionalization : the collapse of the UCD in Spain / Richard Gunther, Jonathan Hopkin -- Party government, patronage, and party decline in Western Europe / Jean Blondel -- Anti-party sentiments in Southern Europe / Mariano Torcal, Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero -- Parties in contemporary democracies : problems and paradoxes / Juan J. Linz.
edited by Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montéro, and Juan J. Linz.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-343) and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)