Political Parties

This collection assesses the impact of European Union membership on parties’ organization and programmes in the new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe. _x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue in Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics...

This volume analyses party system changes in Europe in the 21st century by considering several dimensions such as interparty competition, the cleavage structure, electoral volatility and the emergence of new actors...

Based on raw electoral data from 30 sub-Saharan African countries observed between 1966 and 2016, this text explores the causes and mechanisms of Party System Institutionalization (PSI) and its relationship with the processes of mobilization and democratization...

The ‘protest elections’ of 2012-13 in Italy and Greece produced record-breaking electoral volatility, the decline of bipolarism and the transformation of national patterns of government formation. Analyses of these startling electoral contests is complemented by studies of two key challenger parties..

Based on extensive empirical investigations of the impact of the market on the communist party, with a particular focus on its grassroots organisations, this book finds that the Chinese communist party is undergoing profound changes in a host of important areas. By analyzing the impact of China’s so..

This book examines the September 2009-December 2012 administration of the Democratic Party of Japan from various perspectives including policies, party governance and legacy. It identifies the significance of the DPJ to Japan’s party politics, explains reasons for its downfall and derives crucial le..

This book examines the degree to which party politics on the island of Ireland have been affected by the experience of EU membership._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Irish Political Studies...

This innovative book is the first to offer a Europe-wide perspective on the shapers of party politics on the issue of territorial reform. Through a series of country case-studies, the book shows how the strategic incentives and internal constraints of state-wide parties, and the national context in ..

This book is presented as the first comparative study of the effects of the political crisis on candidate selection covering a large number of countries. Using an integrated framework and unified strategy, it examines how new relevant political actors are really implementing participative ways of ca..

This book takes a detailed look at the ways in which Western Europe’s party systems are anchored in social and ideological structures. _x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics...

Third Party Blues presents a concerted effort to analyze the historical value of third parties while showing that minor party inclusion does prompt real-world positive consequences...

There is a clear discrepancy between the ideal role of political parties expressed in many textbooks and the reality that we see playing out in politics. This book gives us a big picture analysis that helps explain what is happening in American electoral politics...