The New Party Challenge Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond Haughton, Tim. creator Deegan-Krause, Kevin. text Electronic books. enk Oxford Oxford University Press USA - OSO 2021 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (305 p.). This book provides the first systematic book length study of political parties across Central Europe since 1989, and provides new tools and conceptual frameworks that can be used to explain party politics in other regions across the globe. Cover -- The New Party Challenge: Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- 1: Puzzles of Party Politics: How Central Europe Challenges What We Know about Continuity and Change? -- The New Party Challenge -- Institutional Frameworks -- Cleavages -- Economic Policy and Performance -- Legacies and the Inheritance of the Past -- European Union Accession and Membership -- Populism and Populist Appeals -- New Party Formation and Breakthrough -- Party Survival -- Incorporating the Dimension of Time Exploring and Explaining the New Party Challenge -- 2: What's New? How to Refine our Assessments of Party Novelty -- Why New is Complicated -- Newness and Change -- Origins -- Attributes -- Origins, Attributes, and the Extent of Change -- Fissions -- Fusions -- Fission-Fusion Combinations -- Attribute Change without an Obvious Origin Point -- Inceptions -- From Change to Newness -- Appendix About the Cases -- 3: Maps and Measures: Assessing Changes in the Composition of Central European Party Systems -- Mapping Party Continuity and Change in Each Country -- How to Map Party Change -- Estonia Latvia -- Lithuania -- Poland -- The Czech Republic -- Slovakia -- Hungary -- Slovenia -- Croatia -- Romania -- Bulgaria -- Mapping the Big Picture -- Time Period and Cohort -- Standards for Newness -- Comparison Sets -- Volatility -- New Party Entry -- New Party Trajectories -- Patterns of Party Support Over Time -- Weighted Party System Age -- Party Age Distribution -- Conclusion -- 4: The Old and the New: How Parties Differ with Age and Time -- Organization -- Programmatic Appeals -- Leadership -- Conclusion -- 5: The Living and the Dead: Why Some Parties Fail and Others Survive Accounting for Party Survival -- Organization -- Appeals -- The Impact of Government Participation -- Leadership -- The Ones That Stay Up: How New Parties Endure -- Conclusion -- 6: Cycles and Subsystems: Why New Parties Give Way to Even Newer Parties -- The Theory and Practice of New Party Formation -- Tracking the Movement of Voters -- Movement of Voters under the Microscope: Slovenia and the Czech Republic -- Movement of Voters in the Abstract: Simulating the Process -- The Party Subsystem Model -- Temporal Dynamics and the Cycles of Birth and Death -- Conclusion 7: Slovenia Is Everywhere? How New Party Subsystems and Cycles Extend Worldwide -- Beyond Central Europe -- Elsewhere in Europe -- The Americas -- East Asia -- Africa -- Conclusion -- 8: Neither Older nor Wiser? What Continual Party Change Means for the Quality of Democracy -- New Parties: To Be Welcomed? -- New Parties: To Be Feared? -- Impact of New Parties on Politics in Central and Eastern Europe -- New Parties and the Quality of Democracy -- Representative, Responsive, and Responsible Government -- Time, Time Horizons, and Party Cycles -- New and Newer Parties: A Call to Arms? -- References Description based upon print version of record. Political parties Europe, Central Political parties Europe, Eastern Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989- Europe, Central Politics and government 1989- Europe centrale Politique et gouvernement 1989- Political parties Politics and government Central Europe Eastern Europe Since 1989 fast JN96.A979 324.209430905 The New Party Challenge : Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond Haughton, Tim Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2021 Comparative Politics Ser 9780192542274 0192542273 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/33529 EBLCP 201212 20260319183728.8 in00005720000 eng