| Reviews |
| Review(s) from previous edition:
- 'The result is a set of highly rewarding and challenging contributions. This really is a very, very good book, and it constitutes a major contribution to party studies. It comes as close as I have yet seen to a 'state of the art' in the field, and it is a credit to the editors and to their Summer School work over the years.' - Peter Mair, Party Politics
- '... this is a worthy book, both for the wealth of empirical material and as a contribution to further theorizing on the various dimensions of political parties... One strength of this volume is that it is more coherent than many of the recently published competitor volumes on political parties, and its theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses are more encompassing and carried out more
systematically. It is furthermore marked by the consistently high quality of the contributions.' - Political Studies Review
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| Description | | The scope and intensity of the challenges currently faced by West European political parties is exceptionally great, threatening the viability of the manner in which they have traditionally operated and causing them to seek new behaviours and strategies. This volume brings together some of the foremost scholars of European party politics, whose evaluation of political parties in 'the new
Europe' is organised under four broad headings: 'Parties and Society'; 'Parties as Purposive Organizations'; 'Parties and National Government' and 'Parties, the Nation State, and Beyond'. The contributors review the latest empirical findings and provide a concise, critical review of the theoretical and methodological 'state of the art'. They also highlight the analytical challenges confronting
party researchers and suggest new avenues for party research. |
Readership: Scholars and Students of Political Science and Comparative Politics, European Politics, Political Parties and Election Studies
| Contents |
Section I: Introduction
1.
Political Parties in a Changing Europe
,
Kurt Richard Luther and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Section II: Parties and Society
2.
Political Parties and their Publics
,
Russell J. Dalton, Ian McAllister, and Martin Wattenbert
3.
Party Organizational Linkage: Parties Without Firm Social Roots?
,
Thomas Poguntke
4.
Campaign Modernization and the West European Party
,
David M. Farrell
Section III: Parties as Purposive Organziations
5.
The Internal Life of Parties
,
Richard S. Katz
6.
Party Organizational Change: Competing Explanations?
,
Robert Harmel
7.
Parties, Ideologies, and Issues: Stability and Change in Fiftenn European Party Systems 1945-1998
,
Andrea Volkens and Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Section IV: Parties and National Government
8.
Parties and Government Formation, Portfolio Allocation, and Policy Definition
,
Lieven De Winter
9.
Policy-Making Capacities of European Party Government
,
Hans Keman
Section V: Parties, the Nation State, and Beyond
10.
Parties and their Institutional Framework
,
Wolfgang C, Müller
11.
Parties and Party Systems in the European Union
,
Luciano Bardi
Section VI: Conclusion
12.
Parties and Party Research in the New Europe
,
Kurt Richard Luther and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Kurt Richard Luther, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Keele and
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Lüneburg
| Contributors:Luciano Bardi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa.
Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine.
Lieven DeWinter is full-time professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and part-time lecture at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel.
David M. Farrell is a
Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Manchester.
Robert Harmel is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University.
Hans Keman is Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Amsterdam.
Richard S. Katz is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Hans-Dieter Klingemann is Professor of Political Science at the
Freie Universität Berlin and Director of the Research Unit on Institutions and Social Change at the Social Science Research Center Berlin.
Kurt Richard Luther is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment (SPIRE), Keele University, UK.
Ian McAllister is Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National
University.
Wolfgang C. Müller is Professor in Political Science at the University of Vienna.
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Düsseldorf and Head of the Department of Social Sciences.
Thomas Poguntke is Professor of Political Science and Research Director at the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment (SPIRE), Keele
University, UK and Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
Andrea Volkens is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB).
Martin P. Wattenberg is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. |
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