Pan-European Perspectives on Party PoliticsPaul Geoffrey Lewis, Paul D. Webb In this book, an international team of specialists reflects, more than a dozen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on the implications of that momentous conjuncture for the study of party politics in Europe. In particular, the authors and editors seek to address two inter-connected questions: To what extent is there evidence of convergence in patterns of party politics across Eastern and Western Europe? And how far has the theory of parties and party systems coped with the emergence of democratic politics in Eastern Europe? In a wideranging and stimulating set of essays, these issues are confronted in respect of themes such as the impact of institutional contexts like electoral systems and presidentialism, the evolving nature of cleavage structures, party organizational developments, and intra-party factionalism. This book will make a significant addition to any course reading list on comparative and party politics. |
Contents
Party Development and the Polish Presidential Election | 33 |
The Structure and Dynamics of IntraParty Politics in Europe | 55 |
Reassessing Party Financing | 97 |
State Party Funding | 127 |
Are the Exceptions Really the Rule? Questioning the Application | 151 |
Cleavages Party Strategy and Party System Change in Europe | 179 |
Partybased | 207 |
European Parties East and West Comparative | 227 |
Notes on Contributors | 243 |
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References to this book
Developments in Central and East European Politics 4 Stephen White,Judy Batt,Paul G. Lewis Limited preview - 2007 |