| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge research in comparative politics ; 9 |
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Routledge research in comparative politics ; 9
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| Contents |
Do parties respond? Challenges to political parties and their consequences / Thomas Poguntke -- Speaking for whom? From 'old' to 'new' Labour / James E. Cronin -- From disaster to landslide: the case of the British Labour Party / Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley -- From people's movements to electoral machines? Interest aggregation ad the social democratic parties of Scandinavia / Nicholas Aylott -- From aggregation to cartel? The Danish case / Karina Pedersen -- How parties in government respond: distributive policy in post-wall Berlin / Louise K. Davidson-Schmich -- Reaggregating interests? How the break-up of the Union for French Democacy has changed the response of the French moderate right / Nicolas Sauger -- Radicals, technocrats and traditionalists: interest aggregation in two provincial social democratric parties in Canada / A. Brian Tanguay -- Paying for party response: parites of the centre-right in post-war Italy / Jonathan Hopkin -- Latecomers but 'early-adapters': the adaptation and response of Spanish parties to social changes / Luis Ramiro and Laura Morales -- Representative rule or the rule of representations: the case of Russian political parties / Susanna Pshizova -- Five variations on a theme: interest aggregation by party today / Kay Lawson |
| Summary |
This book focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation: do parties today perform that function? If so, how and if not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political participation -- Cross-cultural studies
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Political participation.
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Political parties -- Cross-cultural studies
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Political parties.
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Politics, Practical -- Cross-cultural studies
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Politics, Practical.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies (form)
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Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Poguntke, Thomas.
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| ISBN |
0203324226 |
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0415347971 |
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9780203324226 |
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9780415347976 |
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